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Sep. 19th, 2007 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasHmm. People are going about seeing if they can find the earliest USENET postings of theirs that Google has.
The earliest I found for me was Oct 17, 1992. Given that most folks on my f-list have found stuff they wrote from the eighties or earlier, I'm a net-newbie, but I knew that. It's here, a sort of "hi" introductory post on alt.horror.cthulhu.
You'll notice, of course, that I had the name "Xiphias Gladius" back then -- I'd been using it for three or four years by that point. You'll also note that the PIP news-posting software didn't have a text editor that allowed you to back up to edit previous lines.
So, youngsters: if you think us old-timers are giving you a hard time about your lack of capitalization, poor grammar, or poor spelling, remember, WE did all that stuff at least REASONABLY correctly, without a backspace key. (Well, fine. I had a backspace key -- but once I hit the end of the line and hit return -- yeah, we didn't have word-wrap on that machine, either -- it was All Over.)
The earliest I found for me was Oct 17, 1992. Given that most folks on my f-list have found stuff they wrote from the eighties or earlier, I'm a net-newbie, but I knew that. It's here, a sort of "hi" introductory post on alt.horror.cthulhu.
You'll notice, of course, that I had the name "Xiphias Gladius" back then -- I'd been using it for three or four years by that point. You'll also note that the PIP news-posting software didn't have a text editor that allowed you to back up to edit previous lines.
So, youngsters: if you think us old-timers are giving you a hard time about your lack of capitalization, poor grammar, or poor spelling, remember, WE did all that stuff at least REASONABLY correctly, without a backspace key. (Well, fine. I had a backspace key -- but once I hit the end of the line and hit return -- yeah, we didn't have word-wrap on that machine, either -- it was All Over.)