Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

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.

Has anyone here been posting all the way since March 1990? Who is the oldest
continual poster? Does anyone have any good (or bad!) memories of the old
days?

For your amusement, here is the very first post in comp.sys.apple2:


Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:23311 comp.sys.apple2:1
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu.edu!xylogics!world!spike
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: comp.sys.apple2
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.180958.27054@world.std.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 18:09:58 GMT
Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Reply-To: spike@world.std.com
Organization: Software Tool & Die
Lines: 16


	The newsgroup comp.sys.apple2 has been created.  With any luck
you're site accepted the creation and this message arrived in it.

NOTE: if your system and news reader handles cross-postings correctly
you will only see this message once and that may be in comp.sys.apple.
I have also posted a message just in that group which you should see.

	For the short term you should probably crosspost to both
groups until info-apple is gatewaying comp.sys.apple2.  If you don't
know how to crosspost a message find out, it is not the same as
posting it once to each group.

->Spike     (spike@world.std.com)
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