Re: CH list startup date [was [CH] Online instructions for subbing ...]

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:05 -0400 

Ah, the good old days!  An 8088 laptop with a monochrome LCD screen and a 1200
baud modem!  That's when the "=" appeared in the front of my name.  Sone BBS
software jumped messages with special characters to the top of the list....


On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:32:48 -0700, Paul Wilson wrote
> 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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=Mark

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