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In lugnet.general, "Adam Howard" <abhoward10@hotmail.com> writes:
> When will Lugnet be having it's 1 year newsgroups anniversary? I figure it
> should be around Sept or Oct.
Hmm, the actual anniversary is kind of fuzzy, since there were several
"beginnings"...here's a bit of history:
1. There was some preliminary research and testing on August 9 with a
mock-up newsserver. That was just testing, and it was wiped away later.
2. Then there was a second phase of preliminary research -- alpha testing
an initial hierarchy with about 6 volunteers. That started around
August 27 (I think) and was also wiped away later, as it was just
testing. (BTW, a couple of the messages pseudo-survived the reset by
way of being follow-ups to messages posted before the reset. :-)
3. The very first message posted to the *current* newsgroup system was:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=1
and it has the datestamp of:
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:50:54 GMT
so you might consider that the official "birth" of the current set of
messages. It was officially a beta test, but everything survived.
4. Well, almost everything survived. There was a major problem with the
newsgroup names,
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=23
which required deleting *all* of the messages in the system, wiping out
all the groups, and rebuilding everything by reinjecting all of the
existing messages back into the new naming system. (Basically, 99%
of all the newsgroups were renamed.) This first message posted into
the current newsgroup hierarchy was:
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=24
and it has the datestamp of:
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:40:34 GMT
so you might consider that the official "birth" of the current newsgroup
hierarchy (different from the birth of the current set of messages).
5. When the beta test went live in late September, there were still only
about a couple dozen or so volunteers. So even though it was "live and
running," it wasn't "open arms to all" yet. You can see some of the
initial excitement here:
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=1,20
(Obviously, this was before .announce required followups to other
groups. It wasn't meant as a discussion group.)
The groups became "open arms to all" in a message posted to
rec.toys.lego on October 4 (which I don't have a handy way to link to)
but here is something posted very shortly after:
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=29
and it has the datestamp of:
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:58:47 GMT
so you might consider that the official "birth" of the newsserver,
because up until then, it was still officially in beta testing until
the kinks could be ironed out.
> Are you going to do anything special?
I plan to drink myself silly from September 28 to October 4. ;-)
--Todd
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| In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Does that make me the last beta tester? My first post was (URL) Are you going to do anything special? (...) Cool! I'll bring the über-garlic spamcake paté and a case of Stoli ;-) -Tom McD. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| I am extremely delighted to have been a part of this grand experiment since before the beginning. What has been realised so far is amazing but pales in comparision to what I hope is yet to come. Happy first public anniversary and many happy returns! (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Todd & Suzanne, Congrats on your first anniversary! So much has taken place in the past year. It's amazing how much LUGNET has evolved in just 12 months. I have the feeling that for the 2nd anniversary, it'll be even more spectacular. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Congratulations Todd and Suz! I believe LUGNET is the single most important resource for any Lego enthusiast. (with the possible exception of Lego bricks themselves, although this is debatable because of ldraw and similar Lego cad tools). It's not (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hi Todd, When will Lugnet be having it's 1 year newsgroups anniversary? I figure it should be around Sept or Oct. Are you going to do anything special? Thanks, Adam (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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