In article <17d3636f38997cfd$92211$3832218
$72dd786b@news.thecubenet.com>, percent@yohooo.not says...
>
> Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <9YWdnQodm-OSNc77nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com>, pursent100
> > @gmail.com says...
> >>
> >> Skeeter wrote:
> >>> In article <tYWdnWzbDYRTBs77nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com>, pursent100
> >>> @gmail.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>> In article <tYWdnXPbDYRlB877nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@giganews.com>, pursent100
> >>>>> @gmail.com says...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Sun, 26 May 2024 12:35:39 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 May 2024 18:26:18 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 May 2024 17:42:34 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 May 2024 17:00:57 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 May 2024 14:33:24 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Creon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 May 2024 14:01:03 -0700, % wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> KWills wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Successfully wasting Usenet's time since 1993.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Successfully wasting Usenet's time since 1993.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was no newsgroups in 1993
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> yes there were
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since the 80's!
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you weren't even born yet
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Actually, I graduated high school in the 80's.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As teenagers, we had to worry about the USSR and nuclear
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Armageddon. I read civil defense pamphlets on how to build useful
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> things like fallout shelters.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ever see the movie _Repo Man_? Suburban blight and nihilism. Good
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> music, though.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Anyway: The ARPANet, and the USENET, were designed to survive a
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nuclear war.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I didn't even know about the Net until '91, and that's also when I
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> started using Usenet. Ran rn(1) on an HP/UX system. Not long
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after that, we were running Crynwr packet drivers, and on top of
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that, the original DOS Trumpet newsreader.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> none of that is usenet
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> why would you fib like that
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> it sounds like jibberish , it's not usenet
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> You should sober up and read it again.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/use-soft.htm
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:01:08 GMT
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>>>>>>> Usenet came into being in late 1979, shortly after the release of V7
> >>>>>>>>>>> Unix with UUCP. Two Duke University grad students in North Carolina,
> >>>>>>>>>>> Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, thought of hooking computers together to
> >>>>>>>>>>> exchange information with the Unix community. Steve Bellovin, a grad
> >>>>>>>>>>> student at the University of North Carolina, put together the first
> >>>>>>>>>>> version of the news software using shell scripts and installed it on
> >>>>>>>>>>> the first two sites: "unc" and "duke." At the beginning of 1980 the
> >>>>>>>>>>> network consisted of those two sites and "phs" (another machine at
> >>>>>>>>>>> Duke), and was described at the January Usenix conference. Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>> Bellovin later rewrote the scripts into C programs, but they were never
> >>>>>>>>>>> released beyond "unc" and "duke." Shortly thereafter, Steve Daniel did
> >>>>>>>>>>> another implementation in C for public distribution. Tom Truscott made
> >>>>>>>>>>> further modifications, and this became the "A" news release.[. . .]
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> not usenet
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Okay, I'll bite: How do I differentiate the history I just
> >>>>>>>>> posted from what you consider to be "usenet"?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> i haven't said what i consider about anything
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> You aren't making any sense.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I've been adding all the value (=content) to this
> >>>>>>> thread. Time to declare you crazy and move on.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> yea that's your usual style ,
> >>>>>> you said i considered something and ,
> >>>>>> i never said i considered anything at all ,
> >>>>>> then you fled , typically fled with ,
> >>>>>> a small insult as you ran away
> >>>>>
> >>>>> where are all the good bickers these days?
> >>>>>
> >>>> we all wished google away and losing bickerers was the fee
> >>>
> >>> im thinking of frogging up anf becoming an atheist
> >>>
> >> frog up as both and fight with yourself ,
> >> see who comes to save who you can also find out ,
> >> who your friends are by seeing who comes to ,
> >> support you and if i fk'ed it up ,
> >> i did it by accident
> >
> > I tried that in the fat acceptance group, it's hard but fun
> >
> >
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