begin quoting David M. Cook as of Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:33:14PM -0700: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:42:41AM -0700, SJS wrote: [snip] > > The AOL invasion was september 1993. > > Then I must have started on usenet shortly before then. I can't find any > record on Google Groups, so perhaps I was just lurking.
I was instructed to lurk heavily before posting by the person who showed me 'News. In hindsight, I should have posted something right away, gotten flamed, and then treasured the memories. But noooo, I had to go and pay attention. I was shown *something* on a UNIX machine in 1987, but I didn't like it (or UNIX, for that matter, but I tell myself it might have been Xenix) much at the time. > It's all a bit > fuzzy. It would have been from a terminal logged in the UT Austin Physics > Department VMS server using news (an awful program). A little later they > had Linux boxes with trn. It's sad how such things get fuzzy, isn't it? -- Used to be a FidoNet node. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
