USENET from 1981 to present on google

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Dec 13 16:37:03 2001

>The first post I recall making in 1987 is there. This was just after
>Australia got a reliable 19.2K modem link to the US but before
>TCP/IP had taken hold. From the address I used (huw_at_latcs1.oz) we
>were still using SUN-II as the network protocol.

        Prior to about 1993, I hadn't yet discovered Usenet as I was
still posting on various BBS networks, including FIDOnet and GTnet (I
think that was the name of the GTpower specific network). It wasn't
until small ISP's started popping up all over that I finally got a
Unix shell account and jumped to the Internet. Then again, I never
had the access to connections from colleges and such either. There
was a time though that I was doing a dozen different BBS's each day
trying to keep up with various message bases and discussions,
including running my own for a while.

        Jeff
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