On Mar 5, 9:19*am, John Rumm wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
As a relative newbie to this group, I was wondering, how did it all start?
Don't know, but I presume it predates the "correct" mechanism for
creating uk groups:
http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html#guidelines
since we don't have a charter.
Who got it off the ground in the first place?
Don't know... John S was about then, he might...
I understand it pre dates e- groups like Yahoo?
Usenet itself does - by a long margin (predates HTTP). This group looks
like it was created at the end of '94 if google's archive is to be believed:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-i-y/about?hl=en
LOL. Looking at the first archived post for '95, nothing has changed.
MBQ