If I counted a BBS, I ran one of them in 1980 on an Apple II. When I shut it down Larry Reeves (heartoftn.net) started his operation on a highly modified color computer :-).
Of course that does mean I am feeling really old right about now. Dave On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 11:22 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: > David R. Wilson wrote: > > My current account (owning the box it runs on too) goes back 16 years. > > I had a uu.net feed through a friend of mine dating back to 84. > > > > Dave > > > > > > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:31 -0600, JMJ wrote: > > > >> Greetings, > >> > >> I was just making hot cocoa in my MindSpring Internet Services mug and > >> realized that I've been using that account for a long time. So, I > >> checked and it shows that I signed up on Jan. 3, 1997. So I've had > >> that account for 13 years and it's still my primary account. > >> > >> Of the e-mail addresses you use frequently, how old is the oldest? > >> I'm betting that several of you have addresses that you've been using > >> for longer than 13 years. :-) > >> > >> JMJ, feeling Old School > >> > >> > My first Internet email address was a UUCP bang address > (attctc!radar!eldredge) in 1989. I was a member of the local MacIntosh > user group for a couple of years, even though I didn't own a Mac, > because one of their members was running Unix on his Mac and had UUCP > access to Usenet and email through MTSU. So, I had a shell account on > his system. Once commercial dial-up access became available, I > discontinued the Mac user group membership. I had a succession of > ISP-based email addresses, then registered my own domain, > jfeldredge.com, in 2002, so that I would have an address that wouldn't > change if I subsequently changed ISP's again. So, even though I have > been on the Internet for 21 years, my oldest extant email address is > only 8 years old. > > Of course, I used various local bulletin board systems for several years > prior to getting Internet access. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
