From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:38:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210317213846.GC24642@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c87fa054-667e-b7cc-02c2-6057241389c0@bitsavers.org>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:04:36PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
> > hey it's 1988 already
> >mail without Internet is pretty useless
>
> And Usenet was tin cans and a string.
Usenet was awesome when it was really small. Almost everyone connected
was an academic or some sort of scientist. I could post a question in
pretty much any discipline and wake up to an answer from someone smart.
I tried to get my dad to see it and uttered the fatal words:
"Usenet is so cool, I wish everyone was on it."
Yep, I'm the guy that ruined Usenet :-) I'm not, but I got my wish
and learned quantity is not the same as quality. I was pretty dumb
back in the day.
--lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:33 Josh Good
2021-03-17 20:57 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-17 21:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-03-17 21:38 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-03-17 21:08 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-17 21:26 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-17 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-18 5:10 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-18 1:15 ` [TUHS] XENIX or UNIX? (was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-18 1:21 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-20 0:12 ` Tony Finch
2021-03-18 23:05 ` [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-03-19 1:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-19 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-19 2:06 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-19 2:59 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-19 17:27 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-17 23:18 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-17 23:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-18 1:23 ` Richard Salz
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