How old is this news group?

"Scott Seidman" wrote...
"Bill Kiene" wrote...
I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been
on here?

news.announce.newgroups says the creation date was 5/16/1994. If I
recall, I was one of the 336 users that voted yes.

A true geek among geeks.
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TL,
Tim
(NOW we know who to blame for this crap.)
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Hi Scott,

It's been fun.

Wonderful info.

Thanks

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in
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Hello Bill,

I did a Google Groups, Advanced Search, for you (you can do one
yourself on the Google site) and found the following:

Your first post appeared on 7 January 1997 and it requested opinions
on a JWO Pontoon. Since then, you have posted approximately 3160
times. I did not try to find out when the newsgroup itself began, but
it was probably sometime in the early 1980's.

I doubt if this newsgroup started before that, I can remember when our
first IBM PC appeared at the office in 1981; it had an 8088 processor
(or was it an 8086?) with 64 Mb of memory and no hard drive. An
internet might have been in use by a few scientists before that but I
don't think it became widely used by the public until much later. I
started using the web in the early 1990's and I was by no means an
early adopter.

Best regards,

Yuji Sakuma

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"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been
on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com






news.announce.newgroups says the creation date was 5/16/1994. If I
recall, I was one of the 336 users that voted yes.

Scott

Hi Yuji,

Very good info and thanks.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in message
...
Hello Bill,

I did a Google Groups, Advanced Search, for you (you can do one yourself
on
the Google site) and found the following:

Your first post appeared on 7 January 1997 and it requested opinions on a
JWO Pontoon. Since then, you have posted approximately 3160 times. I did
not try to find out when the newsgroup itself began, but it was probably
sometime in the early 1980's.

I doubt if this newsgroup started before that, I can remember when our
first
IBM PC appeared at the office in 1981; it had an 8088 processor (or was it
an 8086?) with 64 Mb of memory and no hard drive. An internet might have
been in use by a few scientists before that but I don't think it became
widely used by the public until much later. I started using the web in
the
early 1990's and I was by no means an early adopter.

Best regards,

Yuji Sakuma

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"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

My random access memory is going bad. I think it must have had 64 Kb of
memory, not 64 Mb.

Yuji

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"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in message
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Hello Bill,
I doubt if this newsgroup started before that, I can remember when our
first
IBM PC appeared at the office in 1981; it had an 8088 processor (or was it
an 8086?) with 64 Mb of memory and no hard drive.

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:20:31 GMT, "Bill Kiene"
wrote:

Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on here?

Went as far back as Google had records to May of 1994. It was weird
reading a post by Timbo where he is being nice and providing tips to a
newbie -- really weird.

Saw a few names we haven't heard from in a long time . . . .

Peter

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"Peter Charles" wrote in message
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....Saw a few names we haven't heard from in a long time . . . .

There are too many of those. Lots of folks I miss. Its fun when some of
them pop up every once in a while.

Wolfgang

"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com



I'll be 48 on Monday. If you're anything like me, you've been on here too
long.

Hi Lennie,

Well 48?

You will alway be 10 years younger than me, you young wipper stapper.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Lennie Richardson" wrote in message
m...

"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com



I'll be 48 on Monday. If you're anything like me, you've been on here too
long.

When I first started using usenet, I niavely used my real email addy. I
just did a google search for my email addy, and found it is all over the
place. Now I know why my inbox is inundated with ads touting low interest
rates, pain relievers, penis enlargement pills, people from Nigeria wanting
me to help them get 30 mil out of their country for only 5mil, etc,etc.
will that stuff stay out there forever?

Ed
"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
. com...
Hi Lennie,

Well 48?

You will alway be 10 years younger than me, you young wipper stapper.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Lennie Richardson" wrote in message
m...

"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com



I'll be 48 on Monday. If you're anything like me, you've been on here
too
long.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:42:11 -0600, "egildone1"
wrote:

When I first started using usenet, I niavely used my real email addy. I
just did a google search for my email addy, and found it is all over the
place. Now I know why my inbox is inundated with ads touting low interest
rates, pain relievers, penis enlargement pills, people from Nigeria wanting
me to help them get 30 mil out of their country for only 5mil, etc,etc.
will that stuff stay out there forever?

I dunno about forever, but as every indication is the archivers will continue
to hold every bit of trivia ever issued in this medium, including introductory
bon mots such as this

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C62C52C86

and make them forever available for email address stripping - not to mention
identity theft - it's probably not a bad idea to change your addy every so
often ;-)

/daytripper ("Read this and nobody gets hurt")