Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

[Mike Maginnis <mmaginnis@gmail.com>]

On Mar 9, 3:18 pm, dog_...@macgui.com (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.
>
> 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: sp...@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: sp...@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
> Reply-To: sp...@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     (sp...@world.std.com)
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Cool!  Great info.  Of course, Apple II discussion on Usenet goes back
to at least 1983, with net.micro.apple which later became
comp.sys.apple.  Even further back in other groups, no doubt.

- Mike