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Re: Arcane technical history of LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:49 GMT
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On 6/11/26 1:46 PM, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Ya, it's fun to take a trip down memory lane here. Did you know that prior to
> the October 1998 launch, there was a late-September 1998 test-run of about 500
> newsgroups? It involved (I think) about 10 or 15 testers hammering on the NNTP
> server for three or four days.
I did, actually. The Wayback Machine has also been helpful in my trip
down memory lane, and an early "What's New on LUGNET" page mentions it. :-)
> The whole thing was then wiped and replaced
> with the newsgroup structure that exists today. Since participants knew that
> it was a test installation that was going to be wiped, there were some silly
> things posted. :-)
'Twould be interesting to read, I've no doubt!
I mentioned before about the RTL archive, and how I wish we could get
the raw message source out from under the Google Groups interface. The
other big, big piece that remains missing is an archive of the L-CAD
list. There aren't any records at LDraw.org, prior to its own forums
being set up. I reached out to Doug Finney via his Bricklink store, and
he doesn't have anything saved (nor would I have expected it).
Some folks somewhere might have kept certain old threads around, but
probably not a complete archive. Pity!
--
N. W. Perry
a/k/a "Plastikean"
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