mike wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:09:55PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:00:10PM +0000, Rob Partington wrote: > > > When did checking facts become unfashionable? :( > > > > When AOL starting providing Usenet access? > > AOL just started the perpetual September. There was plenty of cluelessness on >Usenet before AOL. > >
Two words: The Portal :) Home of the very first guy to beg for money on the net (jj@portal). Home of one of my favorite HS buddies, who threw over a semi-promising physics career to hack kernels. His family moved out just before The Portal folks decided to move in and set up a BBS there. The name comes from the area of Cupertino the house was located in which in turn was named after the family which had owned a large vineyard there in the 1800s. If it hadn't been for Louis Portal maybe our sales director wouldn't keep pestering me to create a grandiose "portal" out of the sickly, anaemic CGIs that currently make up our web offering. :-/
