Usenet history: the first "worst episode ever" post

How did you find this? Google's Usenet search has been horribly broken for years. It's criminal how they've let their Usenet archives rot away.

Worst Usenet post ever.

(The thread is pretty good, actually. If you read a few posts up where they discuss Steamboat Itchy, you can see that people were even more clueless about copyright in 1992 than they are now.)

What's the significance of this? (Serious question - I'm not a Usenet user and I'm not too much older than this post.)

It's the first recorded online instance of the "worst * ever" meme, which ended up making its way back into The Simpsons by way of the Comic Book Guy.