For those here who like to point out the fact that
someone has replied to a very old usenet thread -
Rod in misc.rural just replied to a 1993 thread !
:-)
What froups were you reading & posting in 1993 ?
John T.

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:42:27 AM UTC-5, wrote:
For those here who like to point out the fact that
someone has replied to a very old usenet thread -
Rod in misc.rural just replied to a 1993 thread !
:-)
What froups were you reading & posting in 1993 ?
John T.

More than I care to list and probably some that I wouldn't.

I've been on usenet since the early 80's.

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:11:33 AM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:42:27 AM UTC-5, wrote:
For those here who like to point out the fact that
someone has replied to a very old usenet thread -
Rod in misc.rural just replied to a 1993 thread !
:-)
What froups were you reading & posting in 1993 ?
John T.

More than I care to list and probably some that I wouldn't.

I've been on usenet since the early 80's.


My first access to Usenet was through a BBS door. I was paying by the hour back then. I remember doing some chatting via satellite link to Birmingham from the Kwajalein Atoll back in the late 1980's. Watching the letters appearing on the green screen of the IBM PC as the guy back in Birmingham typed them was pretty cool. The 7" Fire tablet I now use was science fiction back then. It's amazing that an old school text based discussion forum like Usenet is still around albeit on life support. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Ancient Monster

"Uncle Monster" wrote in message
...
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:11:33 AM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:42:27 AM UTC-5,
wrote:
For those here who like to point out the fact that
someone has replied to a very old usenet thread -
Rod in misc.rural just replied to a 1993 thread !
:-)
What froups were you reading & posting in 1993 ?
John T.

More than I care to list and probably some that I wouldn't.

I've been on usenet since the early 80's.


My first access to Usenet was through a BBS door. I was paying by the hour
back then. I remember doing some chatting via satellite link to Birmingham
from the Kwajalein Atoll back in the late 1980's. Watching the letters
appearing on the green screen of the IBM PC as the guy back in Birmingham
typed them was pretty cool. The 7" Fire tablet I now use was science
fiction back then. It's amazing that an old school text based discussion
forum like Usenet is still around albeit on life support.

Binaries are busy.

JAN 2016 data:

24 TB a day in 56 million posts.

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 2:35:35 PM UTC-6, catalpa wrote:
"Uncle Monster" wrote in message
...
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:11:33 AM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:42:27 AM UTC-5,
wrote:
For those here who like to point out the fact that
someone has replied to a very old usenet thread -
Rod in misc.rural just replied to a 1993 thread !
:-)
What froups were you reading & posting in 1993 ?
John T.

More than I care to list and probably some that I wouldn't.

I've been on usenet since the early 80's.


My first access to Usenet was through a BBS door. I was paying by the hour
back then. I remember doing some chatting via satellite link to Birmingham
from the Kwajalein Atoll back in the late 1980's. Watching the letters
appearing on the green screen of the IBM PC as the guy back in Birmingham
typed them was pretty cool. The 7" Fire tablet I now use was science
fiction back then. It's amazing that an old school text based discussion
forum like Usenet is still around albeit on life support.

Binaries are busy.

JAN 2016 data:

24 TB a day in 56 million posts.

Oh hell, I forgot about binaries! I used to get a lot of stuff from binaries groups. I'm stuck with Google Groups right now. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Binary Monster

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:11:47 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

Oh hell, I forgot about binaries! I used to get a lot of stuff from binaries groups. I'm stuck with Google Groups right now. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Binary Monster

Ever see a binary opened with a binary editor, posted as a text
message and then renamed with the *.exe extension. Rather easy but it
has been a long time for me. I could maybe figure it out again : )

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 3:43:50 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:11:47 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

Oh hell, I forgot about binaries! I used to get a lot of stuff from binaries groups. I'm stuck with Google Groups right now. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Binary Monster

Ever see a binary opened with a binary editor, posted as a text
message and then renamed with the *.exe extension. Rather easy but it
has been a long time for me. I could maybe figure it out again : )

It's been years since I screwed with binary groups. The Pirate Bay kind of made it unnecessary for me to frak with binary groups. It's so much easier to download an ISO, zip or executable from a pirate website. The "Torch" browser has a builtin torrent feature. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://torchbrowser.com/

[8~{} Uncle Flaming Monster

On 12/10/2016 5:26 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 3:43:50 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:11:47 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

Oh hell, I forgot about binaries! I used to get a lot of stuff from binaries groups. I'm stuck with Google Groups right now. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Binary Monster

Ever see a binary opened with a binary editor, posted as a text
message and then renamed with the *.exe extension. Rather easy but it
has been a long time for me. I could maybe figure it out again : )

It's been years since I screwed with binary groups. The Pirate Bay kind of made it unnecessary for me to frak with binary groups. It's so much easier to download an ISO, zip or executable from a pirate website. The "Torch" browser has a builtin torrent feature. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://torchbrowser.com/

[8~{} Uncle Flaming Monster


You guys are old.

Im 80's too. You can tell the oldest by a user's name. I am simply Thomas. Not Thomas223asd45.
Original names are harder to assume..

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 5:00:16 PM UTC-6, Meanie wrote:
On 12/10/2016 5:26 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 3:43:50 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:11:47 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

Oh hell, I forgot about binaries! I used to get a lot of stuff from binaries groups. I'm stuck with Google Groups right now. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Binary Monster

Ever see a binary opened with a binary editor, posted as a text
message and then renamed with the *.exe extension. Rather easy but it
has been a long time for me. I could maybe figure it out again : )

It's been years since I screwed with binary groups. The Pirate Bay kind of made it unnecessary for me to frak with binary groups. It's so much easier to download an ISO, zip or executable from a pirate website. The "Torch" browser has a builtin torrent feature. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://torchbrowser.com/

[8~{} Uncle Flaming Monster


You guys are old.


The 4 year old who gave me the name "Uncle Monster" is now 34 and one grown man I could really embarrass in front of his friends. ヽ(€¢€¿€¢)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Embarrassing Monster

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 8:02:01 PM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:
Im 80's too. You can tell the oldest by a user's name. I am simply Thomas. Not Thomas223asd45.
Original names are harder to assume..

The numbers aren't always added just because the root of the handle has already
been used.

My handle ends in 03 but not because there are any DerbyDad's before me. The
03 has a specific meaning all on it's own.