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On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998)

34 points by ReadToLearn 11y ago

brudgers 11y ago
Date: 1998 Title: The Amateur Computerist, Winter/Spring 1998
bluedino 11y ago
>> 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.
B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
Ah, good times. Although weemba could be a real jerk. (Also, that '_' should be '@' but, ya know, things have kept decaying since the golden age.)
salgernon 11y ago
For 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 14:41
- sillysaurus3 11y ago
  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. ...
  - na85 11y ago
    Oh bang-paths, how delightfully unwieldy.
alphapapa 11y ago
"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
- B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
  Yeah, yeah, that and the posts by Sonja K------- in alt.sex.a---

34 points by ReadToLearn 11y ago

Date: 1998 Title: The Amateur Computerist, Winter/Spring 1998

>> 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.

B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago

Ah, good times. Although weemba could be a real jerk. (Also, that '_' should be '@' but, ya know, things have kept decaying since the golden age.)

salgernon 11y ago

For 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 14:41

sillysaurus3 11y ago
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. ...
- na85 11y ago
  Oh bang-paths, how delightfully unwieldy.

alphapapa 11y ago

"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

B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
Yeah, yeah, that and the posts by Sonja K------- in alt.sex.a---