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 Re: The way we were: January, 1994
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 Tue, 27 May 2003 17:38:39 GMT
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Adrian Egli wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
> > I just read through the first month of postings to rec.toys.lego (January 1994)
> > and was amused and impressed by some of the things I read.  There were many
> > "firsts" of discussions that seem to be ongoing up to the present.  I thought
> > it might be entertaining and/or helpful to reminisce about some of the topics
> > discussed then.  I would love it if someone with a greater ability to process
> > trends and a good editorial eye would take on the task of beginning to write
> > down the history of the online Lego community (more on this after the topic
> > list).
> 
> That would make for some nice history of the online LEGO world.
> 
> One question- where did you find posts so old? We're talking nine years plus
> there!  It would be a real kick to get a look at this very early stuff.

Google. Here's what would appear to be my first Usenet post:

http://www.google.com/groups?q=filz&start=70&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=5&as_maxy=1992&selm=5292%40rpi.edu&rnum=73

It's possible there could be an earlier post that I didn't sign my name
to but still used this account.

Hm poking around at a few other names, I see Lar++ used to run a BBS
(and I'm not sure I knew where Milton came from before...):

http://www.google.com/groups?q=larry+pieniazek&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=1992&selm=401%40tygra.UUCP&rnum=4

But it looks like it took Larry another year to get on Usenet:

http://www.google.com/groups?q=larry+pieniazek&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Jul07.195316.27921%40watson.ibm.com&rnum=2

And here might be Bruce Schlickbernd's first post (using his wife's?
account):

http://www.google.com/groups?q=bruce+schlickbernd&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Apr13.210358.18827%40jato.jpl.nasa.gov&rnum=3

It looks like her first activity might have been voting for the
formation of REC.GAMES.FRP.PBN (which I appear to have voted for
also...).

http://www.google.com/groups?q=bruce+schlickbernd&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=1992&selm=13824%40bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU&rnum=15

It's kind of fun to go back in history...

Frank



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  Re: The way we were: January, 1994
 
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3ED3A29F.D6191A...ing.com... <snipped> (...) I decided to go ahead and do some goofing though google and look up some "old timers", but only on RTL. I also kept the span between Jan 1, 1996 (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
  Re: The way we were: January, 1994
 
(...) Here's my first: (URL) never saw the replies the first tim around... Here's my second, about 6 months later: (URL) Six months after the second post, I was finally reading the group regularly, so I filled in my first roll call: (URL) bet my mom (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
  Re: The way we were: January, 1994
 
Interesting to dig around there. My first posting (though I'd been reading since the dying days of atl): (URL) It is especially embarassing because, as luck would have it, my first LEGO-related posts were about a clone brand. (TENTE) Yeah, yeah, (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: The way we were: January, 1994
 
(...) That would make for some nice history of the online LEGO world. One question- where did you find posts so old? We're talking nine years plus there! It would be a real kick to get a look at this very early stuff. (...) It's funny how one looks (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.general)

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