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From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [COFF] Eternal September
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:27:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831222727.GE28971@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1809010822010.22638@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 08:24:26AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 'Twas back in 1993 when AOL joined USENET (I don't have an exact date) and
> the joint waa never the same since...

I remember being in a canoe with my dad telling him about Usenet.  I said
something like "It's super cool, Dad, it's all smart people.  They have
things divided up sort of like fields in a University.  So I can ask a
question specific to some field and by the next day I've got an answer
from a grad student or someone great in that field.  It's awesome, I
wish more people were on it."

Got my wish.  Wish I hadn't wished that.  I'm sorry, folks, it's all
my fault, such is my power :)


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-31 22:24 dave
2018-08-31 22:27 ` lm [this message]
2019-09-01  5:18 dave

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