> From: "m.roth@xxxxxxxxx" <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:49 AM
> Subject: Re: A request from the CentOS Project
>
> Bob Hoffman wrote:
>> On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>>> Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.roth@xxxxxxxxx:
>>>
>>>> mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor& Siegal,
> and the
>>>> aftermath to them"
>>> Don't get me started. Ah, the good old pre-spam days!
>> I was not working for a computer company, but I finally got online in 93
>> through various things like prodigy, aol, compuserv, etc.
>> I do remember a fateful day when I was in aol, back when it was $4 an
>> hour and there was a chat room called 'spam'
>> I thought it was rather odd that a group of people would be discussing
>> an old monty python skit and jumped in.
>> After a few minutes it was obvious they were not talking about monty
>> python.
>>
>> even then, they were there figuring out how to spam spam spam.
>>
>> not all of us were lucky enough to be working main frames in the 80s for
>> the usenet dang it.
>
> M'frame here. PC's in the mid-eighties, then back to m'frames, pc,
> *finally* got to Unix in '91, which was when I got on the 'Net, late
> that
> year. My late wife was on a couple years before, and a friend who was at
> UP in the mid-eighties talked about it.
>
> Usenet is, of course, still alive, though a lot of folks know it as google
> groups....
My first usenet browser was "rn." I first started posting in the
early 90's from a University account. I also had access to BITNET
mailing lists, and the name "LISTSERV" might have come from there.
Since BITNET access was limited the discussions there were mostly
tamer.
=== Al
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