On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:18 AM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in > 1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The > messages that appear on the server are exactly 30 years behind the current > date. It's pretty cool. Last year was the Great Renaming. :)
Oh, man... I was around for that. I was just learning the ropes and then the entire world changed. I was on an Ultrix machine and not quite dialled into all the latest things like the cool kids on the leading edge, so I remember struggling with the now-obsolete Netnews package and trying to figure out why all my news was going into "junk" - it was because the default catalog file (I forget the name) had all the old newsgroup names and I didn't have an easy way to get a new one. ISTR one of my friends at Ohio State let me Kermit into his box to pick up a copy directly from him and that fixed me right up. When Google put Usenet archives online in 2001, this subject came up - I can't find any of my posts from net.micro.amiga, but I was there. I got an Amiga and got on Usenet about the same time, in 1986. It's possible I was reading news in late 1985, but I was running a news server at work by 1986. -ethan
