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Re: some "mild" discrepancies in roll call....
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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:21:00 GMT
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That was really interesting!
I read the entire post…and wanted more.
You’ve really got some history here.
And I thought that ‘I’ was cool cause I've been around at the birth of Lugnet.
Around the time Ed ‘boxers’ castle first came out. And I've been actively
postin’ for well over a year. I think I helped contribute is some small way
to our group. With the various roll calls and the veracious nagging about
why we don’t have a web page for rtlToronto (Long ago.) and the
conversations generated towards the naming of the group. And now with the
organization of a Brickwarz competition…
But WOW, you’ve been here since the beginning.
You created and established every thing…
Calum is the King.
Sincerely,
--==Riçhärd==--
You can reach me @
Shroud_of_Kung_Fu@Hotmail.com
. -Lego good, Canada great-®
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Benjamin Medinets writes:
> > again thanks for clarifying things (I should have known better....almost
> > 10 years in REC.Toys.Lego <in Calum's case>)
>
> I think less. I can't remember the first time I posted on rtl, but it was
> like 94 or 95, because it was before first year of university. I was
> definetly reading alt.toys.lego on r-node.hub.org (which became IO.org,
> Toronto/Canada's first ISP) a three line UUCP/BSD box run by a local guy out
> of his apartment in Etobicoke. If you'd believe it, the newsfeed would be
> sucked down a 14.4 modem (fast in those days, you youngins) every few hours,
> UUCP dialup on a crontab. None of this newfangled live IP connection stuff
> :) I used to show people atl as an example of how powerful the Internet
> could be-look, you can find a newsgroup on ANYTHING, even Lego! There are
> weirdos out there who play with Lego! And they're adults! :) But the
> first newsgroup I had ever read was alt.fan.jen-coolest -a newsgroup
> centered around a law student named Jen, who had her own fan club. I had
> accidentally subscribed to it and alt.toys.lego because I didn't know really
> to get rn to work, and whoever had compiled it was thoroughly confused and
> had it to newgroup every group on startup if you hadn't defined a .newsrc or
> whatever.
>
> By 95 I was full throttle into it, and they had voted into existance via RFV
> the rec.toys.lego group, giving it more legitimacy on netnews. I posted a
> LOT, it was better than doing Statics problem sets. It was weird back
> then-all the names are almost gone. The Earthsea server was one of the most
> active locations for information, we had posters like Minx Kelly, Tony
> Kilaras, Lou Zucaro. Roll Calls were done every few months, I would always
> worry about what to put as an email address because I was teetering on
> enrollment at the University. :) It was a time before Lugnet, Larry,
> thousand dollar eBay scalping auctions, LUG or LTCs of any sort-when Lego
> Robotics meant hand soldering a MIT 6.270 board or a 6811 Mini or Handyboard
> and wiring up 4.5V motors and scavenged Polaroid sensors, not going out to
> buy a Mindstorms kit. (Historical note: I assembled together a Miniboard
> 2.11EXT, driven in Hexmon mode by an Amiga 2500/20 in spring of 95)
>
> In fact, Lou Zucaro's Pause website was one of the first places to check for
> new sets. I spent DAYS reading pause.com on a SiliconGraphics Indy
> workstation, 8 bit X dither on a Hitachi 19" monitor, no less. It was
> before ANYONE had broadband at home, so skipping first year engineering
> classes to read up on new sets on the fast ECF connection was a pretty good
> deal, in stunning SGI Netscape 2.0 style. (Yeah Chris, I used Netscape back
> then. It was the only browser than ran nicely in IRIX, and while we could
> use XMosaic, it was easier to use Netscape, because SGI had done stuff with
> it to make it run extra fast, we thought. In fact, until 1997, I had used
> Netscape almost exclusively, plus AWeb II and other Amiga browsers)
>
> Lugnet has really changed the game. We've gone from random posts to full
> blown community, international, and it's largely due to Todd's excellent and
> tireless work. But what I will miss was the crosspollenation of ideas-and
> by this, I don't mean crossposting, which I can't stand. I NEVER read other
> groups beyond the Canadian ones, it's just too large-yet back in rtl I'd
> read about Castle and Pirates just because it was all lumped together. Yet
> you couldn't do rtlToronto without Lugnet and classification. Oh well.
>
> Anyways, I suppose that's all in the past. It's unusual to think of that.
> I used to be a very heavy poster on comp.sys.amiga.hardware too. I went
> around to check it out, and it's like, nothing ever changed. People talking
> about how to rewire 1.44MByte floppies into dualspeed 1.76MB Amiga
> floppies-scandoubling RTG cards and stuff. rtl is mostly dead now.
>
> > PS....hey Calum, If Chris ever charged a royalty for the "pyro guy" concept....
> > I think he'd be very rich, and you'd be quite poor :)
>
> Now if I charged for all the great ideas Chris uses from me...swarming...
> I'd be rich! :)
>
> Calum
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