Apparently Usenet was among the first message boards ever created and operated on an early version of the Internet. Google has archived a lot of the early posts and this appears to be the oldest:

May 11, 1981 at 09:00:58 AM

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.general/yJn8WHlzc7U/lPyVdYqCXyAJ

1981 seems like so long ago so it's amazing to see something like this from that era.

actually there was an earlier post in the thread but one of the mods deleted it as spam because it was just some troll posting "FIRST".

:lol:

Jeesh! And I wasn't even born in 1981!