Good Old Days of '92
Ah, for the good old days when Usenet users would mention FTP downloads of their research paper in TeX format. Incidentally, I found this in a record of a famous flame war that occurred between Linus Torvalds (chief architect of Linux) and Andrew Tanenbaum (author of MINIX) in 1992 on the relative merits of monolithic kernels vs microkernels. I wouldn't be too surprised if the file (cs91.ps.Z) was still there (albeit in a different folder). Such persistence is an indicator of significant badassery.
Did you know that there was a research successor to Unix called Plan 9 from Bell Labs? How much geekier can you get? Too bad it never really made it into the wild.
It's funny how the early 90s seem like ancient history, when you're talking computers.