Bob Hoffman wrote:
On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:
mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor& Siegal, and theaftermath 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....
mark
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