Re: CH list startup date [was [CH] Online instructions for subbing ...]
Paul Wilson (wilsonster@gmail.com)
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:32:48 -0700
Hi Ditz,
I'm not sure how that T got in there. ;) Actually I do, half blind and sausage
fingers on a laptop keyboard. I hope this one gets through.
Way back in the late eighties I found a local BBS that had a list of portals you
could dial into to get access to this thing called the Internet. I dialed in
through the University of Colorado. I had to learn some Unix stuff but it was
very cool.
You could retrieve files and send messages. I heard on a message board about
this guy Mike Bowers who had a list talking about spicy foods and growing
chilies. I was all for that. The word spread fast and within a few months there
were people on the list from all over the world. It was nothing to get 3 or 4
hundred messages a day.
Pretty soon the ISPs started popping up and then Eudora and Netscape came along
and away we went.
Sometimes I miss the days pre AOL. They were fun and mysterious times. I think
there was only about 20 web pages on the entire Internet.
On or about Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:39:24 -0400, a stampede was started when Ditz
hollered:
> Hey Paul, your email to which I was replying, probably didn't go to CH list
> as intended. Has a typo in list addy, which I learned when I hit Reply to
> All -- the CH one bounced back. Durned fumbly fingers, anyway. How come
> they don't type what we *think*?
>
> Below is bounced post I sent to Paul and list:
>
> Wow! Clinton's first term was 1993, so that would make it
> considerably before the first CH message archives. Yeah, I'd say you were an
> old-timer, Paul. ;-) You and that Old Guy up in Canada who tells us about
> his cooking oncet while. LOL <she runs, she spins, she weaves> <owwww! dang
> it>
>
> A C-64 eh? That must be old, could be a plane, for all I know! Never heard
> of it. <grin> Wait, wait .. Incoming memory ... was that a ... Commodore?
>
> Heck, I'm no spring chick m'self, but I didn't even
> get on the internet for first time until 1998, and I was pretty intimidated
> for some time.
>
> I've been on the CH list since 2002 but used different nicknames -- changed
> about every time I changed ISPs and addies. By the way, Sandy, I'm the
> ChileBuzz on your random list of missing persons. Am guessing the post you
> saved was about tuna salad perked up with Mazzetta Oives in Habanero Salsa.
> Yum. Maybe.
>
> What I don't understand is how you guys who have used the same addy online
> for years are not BURIED in spam! This gmail account I originally opened to
> post to Mac group, is already being spammed away. Drives me nuts.
>
> Lovely to see the chile-heads a-bee-boppin' again.
>
> ditz
Regards, , Paul
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