On 3/9/2010 6:26 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
Mike Spurgeon wrote:On 3/9/2010 2:18 PM, D Finnigan wrote:I meant to post this on the exact day, but oh well! March 5, 1990 is the date of the first post in this newsgroup, and 20 years later, we are still at it! Back in the early 1990's, the average posts per month was around 1,500. That began to decline after the year 2000, with brief surges in late 2006 and a few other periods.Where did you get the 1990 date?March 5th, 1990 is the date of the first ever post to the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup.
Seeing the other posts, it was probably com.sys.apple, or some such. I got a VAX account in 1983 or so, so was online pretty early. I still have the account. Maybe I can check the startup date...