How old is this news group?

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

I stand corrected, my search was flawed. Charlie is right, March 8,1996.

Yuji Sakuma

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"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in
:

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

================================================== ===========
"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

"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.
--
TL,
Tim
(NOW we know who to blame for this crap.)
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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
:

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

================================================== ===========
"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

================================================== ===========
"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.