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Re: AFOL History Project - Redux
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:57:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> You may recall the AFOL History Project that Jason Whittenburg posted some years
> ago:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=3712
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> I was quite interested in the project when it debuted-- every once in a while
> I'd jump back to it hoping to see more history fill it up. But that only lasted
> until sometime in late 2008, when the Jainsguide website went AWOL.
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> Anyway, using a duplicate copy that I had snatched sometime in October of that
> year, I've since been filling it in here and there, and finally decided to do
> something with it, since it doesn't seem like Jainsguide is coming back anytime
> soon. So, here's my new version:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/afol_history.pl
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> There have been quite a lot of additions since 2008, but there are still a lot
> of events that can be added. So please, send some in!
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> Also, feel free to discuss-- I know what flavor of things I'M going for, but I'm
> not sure if it betrays Jason's original intent, or if the community at large has
> a different idea of the sorts of events to record, and how to record them.
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> DaveE
Very cool!
What about A.T.L. (Alt.Toys.Lego) News group? It might not been as big or
popular as R.T.L. in 1994. But A.T.L. did come before R.T.L. a year before or
about the same year as R.T.L.
As I can remember or recall the first Lego chat news group in order.
1. A.T.L. (yr: 1993/1994?)
2. R.T.L.
As for other sites 'pause.com', 'lugnet.com', and I think 'everything Lego'.
There was someone also who had the first use of the LEGO domain name site.
Before the Lego lawyers send a letter.
-Abner
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| (...) Yeah, I haven't found a date for it yet-- supposedly in the ballpark of January 1993. I found one source referencing the start as 9 months prior to the proposal for RTL, which happened in Oct of 1994. Unfortunately, I think the archives for (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jan-11, to lugnet.general)
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