-----Original Message-----
>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:06 -0000
>From: "Witchy" <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>Subject: RE: cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
>> Sent: 26 January 2004 23:31
>> where did that start? I'm sure I remember seeing the "cow orker" typo in
>> usenet postings about ten years ago, but maybe it has a history far
>> older than that...
>>
>
>I'm sure it's been in common parlance for longer
>than this, but my other online home at www.b3ta.com
>(currently offline for upgrades) coined the term
>'orking' for a picture of an animal that had its nose
>too close to the camera lens, and from that the 'new'
>term of a cow-orker was born, but from sniffing around
>USENET archives it seems it's been around for longer
>than the last couple of years :)
>
>cheers
Hello,
My first try on this list. Hope this works. :)
I recall using cow-orker as early as my FIDOnet days (up til 1993).
It seems to go back as far as the late 80's. I just loked around and
found this URL...
Excerpts from
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowOrker
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The earliest reference in GoogleGroups is from a signature
file posted to alt.sca on June 27, 1989...
The same author used it in his signature file for posts
to alt.sca through August 11, 1989...
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