A trifle late to the conversational party and by the sounds of things quite a late entry to SMUG for I think I first joined approximately 12 years ago.
Just to echo all the above and thank all in the community who've hosted and posted, replied and helped us mortals thrive, with all our Apple devices. I concur it has gotten a little quieter round here of late, but remain so grateful for the group's, regularly helpful and warm replies given in many ways the walled orchard of the Apple ecosystem gets more complicated as we rely upon more and more devices to help us along each day. Even then, "turn it off and on again" is still a wise first step! So grateful to SMUG, delighted to hear the domain and webpage pointing people here will continue (t'was how I first found you) and here's to many more years of friendly threads of honest questions and helpful replies! Cheerio Adam On Tuesday, 24 October 2023 at 22:22:25 UTC+1 Stephen Watson wrote: > Hi all you lovely SMUGgers, > > BIG thanks to Sam for agreeing to host. BIG thanks to admins over so long. > BIG thanks to Sam for being to brilliantly helpful maybe even more than the > others (controversial!) and BIG thanks to all you lovely SMUGgers for being > such a wonderful crew over so many years. > > As Jason said, the club was going before he became involved but I have to > say I don’t know when it started. I remember being in the basement(?) of a > pub not that far from Brighton station for meetings when someone brought > along a black PowerBook with a rollerball mouse wheel thing and showed us > Adobe Photoshop which hadn’t been out that long and our collective jaws > dropped. Photoshop was released in 1987 as a sort of time guide. > > I’d started a general computer club in Hanover Community Centre with a guy > from Hove sometime in 1985 I think and took along my Macintosh 128K one > evening. I remember showing a B&W QuickTime movie the size of a postage > stamp called The Kitchen of Tomorrow ( > https://youtu.be/odk2MexTxHg?si=JS7z-xE0fkMCAE6k ) and I remember clearly > wondering “Why would anyone want to watch a movie on a computer?” A good > thing nobody ever put me in charge! 🤣 > > I imagine SMUG took shape a few years after that. We moved around to a > number of venues before anchoring ourselves in the aether as now. > > Who on earth would have imagined back then that Apple would be what they > are now, what the shape of the Mac would be and that we’d mostly all carry > around wireless networked computers in our pockets?! Truly the stuff of > science fiction. Or … that SMUG would be here around 30+ years later? 🙂 > > All the best to all, > Stephen > > You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > > On 24 Oct 2023, at 08:57, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I think it’s older than that. Stephen Watson may be able to cast some > light on it… I re-started it around 2000 or 2001 but I believe it had been > running before then. > > > Jason > > -- > Jason Kitcat > > http://www.jasonkitcat.com > +44 7956 886 508 <+44%207956%20886508> > > On 24 Oct 2023, at 07:58, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Many thanks Sam and many thanks Graham for keeping the web page going for > 14 years. > SMUG is a reassuring safety net in spite of the fact that we must all be > becoming a bit more computer literate as there seems to be less traffic > these days. SMUG must be coming up for its 25th birthday soon? > Nick > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 21:29, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Sam. So generous of you - and so reassuring for we oldies! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:53, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Wonderful and thanks all. > > Graham and Sam - let me know if I need to do anything to facilitate. > > All the best, Jason > -- > Jason Kitcat > > http://www.jasonkitcat.com > +44 7956 886 508 <+44%207956%20886508> > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:15, Graham Street <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just to reiterate my earlier reply. The SMUG group would not have ended. > This website and domain name is just a single page that points to the > Google Group. I’ve hosted the page and annually paid to renew the domain > name for almost 14 years. It’s time to pass this responsibility onwards. > I’d suspected SAM would offer but needed to involve Jason as he registered > the domain name. > > Graham > Sent from my iPhone > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:02, 'Philip Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Very generous Sam. It would be very sad for it all to end. > Does anyone know though, if SMUG has had fewer users / contributors in the > latter days? > Sent from my iPhone > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 19:02, Gillian Snoxall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fantastic, Sam! Well done – and thank you. > > Gilly > > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 18:55, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I can host it no problem > *_* > > Regards > Sam Mullen > > +44 (0)7747778022 <//+447747778022> > [email protected] > www.macambulance.com > [image: MacAmbulance] MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC > Support and Web Development > > On 23 Oct 2023, at 17:28, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > Graham Street has been in touch to ask about what to do with the > sussexmug.org.uk domain and single web page. He has been kindly hosting > it all after I got out of the hosting business. 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