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I'm not entirely sure why my work is here or if will stay here very long, but I was tipped off about it so thought I could provide some context! :-) I run a co
by petercooper 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure why my work is here or if will stay here very long, but I was tipped off about it so thought I could provide some context! :-)
I run a company that publishes a wide variety of newsletters like Ruby Weekly and JavaScript Weekly (both now ten years old) to almost 500k subscribers now, and in a discussion on Twitter the other day mentioned I started a popular BASIC 'fanzine' on Usenet in the mid 90s which I guess was sorta the newsletter of its day. OP has linked to the first issue of that fanzine. Looking back, I feel very privileged I eventually spun out a childhood interest into my day job 20 years later!
- fuball63 6y agoThanks for keeping this site online, I used it back in high school to learn QB, well past the glory days of QB (~2005). I'm sure there's plenty of people stumbling into QB to this day and using the resources there. Also, that's super cool about doing newsletters on programming still!
- petercooper 6y agoOh, it's confusing, but I'm not the Pete of Pete's QB fame, I just happened to be another Pete/Peter who did a lot in the QBasic space :-) I didn't even know these fanzines were being archived there until a few years ago, so I hold him in similarly high esteem! The Pete of Pete's QB site is Pete Berg, I believe: https://twitter.com/bandergrove/status/992130011413889025 https://twitter.com/bandergrove/status/992130011413889025
- fuball63 6y agoHaha that's pretty funny.