Bob Hoffman wrote: > On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us: >> >>> 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.... mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >