On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
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Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#2Date: 1998
Title: The Amateur Computerist, Winter/Spring 1998
Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#3>> Ken Thompson and someone else from Bell Labs
(who years later I realized was Brian Kernighan)
The computing world seemed so small back then. You've got just a handful of guys making things we still used to this day, like C and UNIX, and then they're writing computer chess programs on the side. True 10x developers.
Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#4Ah, good times.
Although weemba could be a real jerk.
(Also, that '_' should be '@' but, ya know, things have kept decaying since the golden age.)
Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#5For a fun retro afternoon:
telnet telehack.com
.usenet
2b36b Bitgraph mouse support routines net.emacs 02-Oct-85 14:28
2b36c Faculty & Research openings fa.arpa-bboard 02-Oct-85 14:29
2b36d [longish] Re: ATTIS's force redu 1 net.flame 02-Oct-85 14:31
2b36e Problem with DA's, PICT, and Scr 1 net.micro.mac 02-Oct-85 14:31
2b36f Dual Channel NRZI Encoder/Decode net.ham-radio.packet 02-Oct-85 14:34
2b370 APSE E&V Evaluator Survey net.lang.ada 02-Oct-85 14:35
2b371 Sullivan County International net.aviation 02-Oct-85 14:41Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#6For a fun retro afternoon: telnet telehack.com .usenet 2b36b Bitgraph mouse support routines net.emacs 02-Oct-85 14:28 2b36c Faculty & Research openings fa.arpa-bboard 02-Oct-85 14:29 2b36d [longish] Re: ATTIS's force redu 1 net.flame 02-Oct-85 14:31 2b36e Problem with DA's, PICT, and Scr 1 net.micro.mac 02-Oct-85 14:31 2b36f Dual Channel NRZI Encoder/Decode net.ham-radio.packet 02-Oct-85 14:34 2b370 APSE E&V Evaluat…
This is incredible! Thank you so much. This was before my time, and I've always wondered what those days felt like. This is probably the close I'll get to living it.
usenet
news> 1f059
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!godot!massar
From: massar@godot.UUCP (J.P. Massar)
Subject: CCA Emacs Elisp bug fix
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:30:40 EST
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
Following is a quick fix to make edefuned functions
given numeric arguments obey the documentation.
...Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#7 "A large part of the success of Usenet is due to the fact
that its admins. do *not* generally quash argument and
unpopular opinion. This made it a crucible for testing
ideas and opinions in one of the closest approaches to the
`marketplace of ideas' that has been seen in history."
Gregory G. WoodburyRe: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#8"A large part of the success of Usenet is due to the fact that its admins. do *not* generally quash argument and unpopular opinion. This made it a crucible for testing ideas and opinions in one of the closest approaches to the `marketplace of ideas' that has been seen in history." Gregory G. Woodbury
Yeah, yeah, that and the posts by Sonja K------- in alt.sex.a---
Re: On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)
#9For a fun retro afternoon: telnet telehack.com .usenet 2b36b Bitgraph mouse support routines net.emacs 02-Oct-85 14:28 2b36c Faculty & Research openings fa.arpa-bboard 02-Oct-85 14:29 2b36d [longish] Re: ATTIS's force redu 1 net.flame 02-Oct-85 14:31 2b36e Problem with DA's, PICT, and Scr 1 net.micro.mac 02-Oct-85 14:31 2b36f Dual Channel NRZI Encoder/Decode net.ham-radio.packet 02-Oct-85 14:34 2b370 APSE E&V Evaluat…
This is incredible! Thank you so much. This was before my time, and I've always wondered what those days felt like. This is probably the close I'll get to living it. usenet news> 1f059 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!godot!massar From: massar@godot.UUCP (J.P. Massar) Subject: CCA Emacs Elisp bug fix Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:30:40 EST Newsgroups: net.emacs Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Following…
Oh bang-paths, how delightfully unwieldy.