What I found. Oh! Look, look !
As old-schoolers know Deja News, an historical Usenet repository was lately acquired by Google some year ago for Google Groups service, still conserves intact pieces of story of the web.
Searching in google for google groups php at the first place what I found is (suspance):
Rasmus Lerdorf’s first PHP stable release announce!!
Share it !
I kind of miss my old newsgroups account. I had a copy of deja vu news which I lost the password for then my internet provider stopped providing access to newsgroups.
I believe they are still available through third party providers but I never perused it.
The end of an internet era I do suppose.