- And I thought, a bunch of technological investigation would be a
bunch of technological mumbo jumbo.
So, I should go right to the source and ask the people whom post here.
Duh!
When did alt.culture.us.1970s begin? And where?
Who has been here the longest?
Just curious?
BTW - I LOVE FUNNY STORIES!!! Especially 'bout you old timers.
I'll never forget my first thread - almost like yesterday. Ummm, I
think it WAS yesterday. Ha, Ha!
Bonus points for creativity!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Nate, you're very lucky I logged on before leaving from work (yes, I'm
still at work!)
You can start here: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2260/
Btw, I think *I've* known about usenet longer than anyone here - I'll
explain next time, though :)
enjoy,
-Naz
LOL...seriously, I have been posting in and out of here since late Spring/early
Summer 1996. I remember one particular member from those days named "Vashti"
who described herself as a "weird hippie chick" and when I asked where everyone
was during Watergate, she replied "I was stoned, watching fairies fly." Man I
miss her...
I don't think that makes me the longest-running poster, especially if Naz was
aware of Usenet back in the early 1980s.
Dixon
===========
"You never know when another beast might come down out of the forest!"
--Barney Fife, legendary lawman
Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best
http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2260/
I think you might have read me wrong. I wanted to know
alt.culture.us.1970s history, not the usenet itself.
Thanks though.
BTW - Loved the 2800 baud rate part. Those were the good ole "hurry up
and wait" days.
Fix a pot of coffee ladies and gents, she's a coming in at a lightin'
fast analog speed and this may take all night!!!!!!!
I want to take a walk down memory lane!
Liz
have a great day guys!
aleen the karaoke queen
a_nate...@my-deja.com wrote in message <8setgm$a1j$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>LOVE to hear some first thread stories folks!
>
>I want to take a walk down memory lane!
>
>
Since then I have been hooked.
I have been living on the road for 10 months now. I enjoy checking in here
almost every day. You guys bring back some of the sweetest memories of my
childhood. There is also a sense of community here that you don't find
elsewhere. It is sorta like a little home away from home.
Kelly
Kelly
PS. Thanks for the Freakies stuff. No one I knew remembered it, even my
mother who would buy it for us sometimes.
"Dixon Hayes" <dixon...@aol.comspamless> wrote in message
news:20001017011946...@ng-cb1.aol.com...
> Kelly wrote:
>
> >It must have been when I first got on line Jan 1999. I was looking for
> >someone else on this planet who had heard of the cereal "Freakies".
Someone
> >(I can not really who) was kind enough to post a Freakies web site for
me.
>
> That was me, Kelly, I posted from a computer at work that night. So, when
are
> we gonna see you on Tiny Dancer's site??
I remember the first people I got to know were Rachel and a guy named Drew.
They were just so nice and made me feel so welcomed and comfortable (thanks
again, Rach). I'm just so happy I happened upon this place : )
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
Dixon Hayes wrote in message
<20001016012112...@ng-ci1.aol.com>...
But you know what, Billy? I have seen other groups fall apart over far less,
people slashing each other to ribbons over nothing. I probably accidentally
started the "Archie Bunker" war myself but we all learned from it and grew from
it. That's what friends do. Heck it's what *families* do.
Dixon (who's gonna shut up now before I get sick to my stomach from all this
syrup)
Molly
>It must have been when I first got on line Jan 1999. I was looking for
>someone else on this planet who had heard of the cereal "Freakies". Someone
>(I can not really who) was kind enough to post a Freakies web site for me.
That was me, Kelly, I posted from a computer at work that night. So, when are
we gonna see you on Tiny Dancer's site??
Dixon
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
http://www.geocities.com/athens/thebes/5591/
"Kelly" <kwit...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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>
> My pics, scanner, and almost everything I own is spread all over the NY
> Metro area. I am in Portland OR. As soon as I am home long enough to go
> through it all I will send it in, promise!
>
> Kelly
>
> PS. Thanks for the Freakies stuff. No one I knew remembered it, even my
> mother who would buy it for us sometimes.
>
> "Dixon Hayes" <dixon...@aol.comspamless> wrote in message
> news:20001017011946...@ng-cb1.aol.com...
We believe it was two springs ago when we discovered this NG. I was
searching for a place to post my Billy Squier Happy Blue
review/article. [http://www.geocities.com/scribes2000/review.html] I
searched for "1980s" in Altavista and was led to the
alt.culture.us.1980s NG. Then I thought, Hmmm, I wonder if there's a
70s NG? So I searched, and it popped up. I subscribed, and fell in
love with the people and the place. I kept reading Larry some of the
posts, and eventually we ended up sitting down together to read and
post.
The people I remember from our beginnings were Rachel, Sandy, Drew,
Dixon, Joy, Beth, Nadine, DavisK (who helped us find Deja), Retroman,
Molly, Erin, Dennis, Lorrie (TruetoBrad), Tricia, and Troy. Oh, and we
recall some ugly posts from Jay, but he apologized, and we all went on
from there.
I've made a few faux pas myself here, and it's great how everyone knows
that's human, and such things are usually forgiven.
I don't remember my first post, but I do recall being very excited when
I checked to see if anyone had answered, and there were about six
answers. Tee-hee!!!! Oh, I think it was about After School Specials,
and Dixon was the first to answer.
There was the time I posted something about Free to Be You & Me, and
someone said, "We just went through all that a month or so ago; check
Deja archives." I did but couldn't find anything about FTBY&M. So
that was a disappointment. I recall thinking at the time, "If that's
as bad as it gets in here, I wanna stay forever!!"
Larry recalls that Lorrie (TruetoBrad) was the first to answer one of
his posts. :)
I love our comaraderie and how everyone can laugh at themselves and
others, I love the 70s talk, the music especially, but I love how you
guys are always here. No matter what kind of crap is going on in our
lives, we know we can come in here and have some good clean fun.
Sappy 'nuff for ya? Sorry! It's just simple honesty. And that's
another thing about this place!!!!
Dawna & Larry
--
~~A deadly secret lies within LAURA'S LEGACY, available @ Amazon.com
Our web site: http://scribes.virtualave.net/
alt.culture.us.1970s website:
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70s.html
You mean I'm not the only one to think like this back then??? Wow :-) I
thought I was the ONLY one who ever wondered & worried bout this sort of
thing. Hehehe!!
Billy
:-) Patricia
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger'
- Friedrick Nietzsche
Memmmmmmmmmmmmmories dah-dah-dah. . . dah dah-dah-dah. . .
Sandy <sand...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20001016225813...@ng-mf1.aol.com...
Oh, yeah...I remember the Christmas Juke Box...very cool.
Well, according to my undeleted sent messages (points to self and says:
"Poster Child for Packrat-itis"), my first message here was Feb 18/99 and
related to the Bicentenial Freakies Cereal commercial.
Wow. I knew I'd been here for a while, but I didn't think it was that long.
Time flies when you're having fun!
Erin ">
<antipos...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
I look
> forward to meeting Buddy from Brooklyn in the Big Apple, and then, who
> knows, hopefully meeting others down the road.
You better count me in with that NYC meeting. I may be in Oregon at the
moment but I am a NYer. (Right Buddy?)
Kelly
"The Wanderer" <rosieon...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:w09H5.6319$7N.3...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Damn right Curlytop! And dont let NOBODY say ya aint!
Thanks!
--
Kelly
ICQ 35590613
Yahoo Messenger Spider66_kw
AOL Instant Messenger Kelly071966
I sometimes take breaks from the different newsgroups that I read, but when I
come back to this one, it never feels like I left! This is, by far, the
friendliest group around.
Lorrie
Cheers,
TD
I could whistle up an old tune
That your memory might recall
Rustle up some reminisce
'Bout the good old days and all
from Harry Chapin's "If My Mary Were Here"
alt.culture.us.1970s
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70s.html
Ooh, ooh, ooh. . .I can't believe I missed that!
I want to be the first to post "The Chipmunks Christmas Album". . .
Which BTW was the opening scene of "Almost Famous"
Very much a memory for me. Southern Ca. at Christmas time is rare in
films. It's usually snow capped blah, blah, blah. A famaliar thing
for us is our 80 degree 300 days a year kinda thing. LOVED that scene.
I used to post in here as con...@bu.edu. Around 1995, I was asked by
Darby Romeo, editor of the zine Ben is Dead, if she could use something
I posted (on Suzie Quatro) in a "Retro Hell" issue that the zine was
doing. I agreed, and wound up submitting a few entries to them.
One thing led to another, and these short pieces, on 70s and 80s retro
were expaneded into a book. Here's a link from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316102822/qid%3D971838464/102-88
41664-1071351
I wound up having about a dozen entries published. So I can say that
thanks to alt.culture.us.1970s, I wound up getting to be part of a
really cool book project, one I'm pretty proud of.
Mainly though, I hang out here because I enjoy the wide ranging
discussions, I enjoy how we all get to express ourselves, and as others
have pointed out so well, I think of all of you as friends. I look
forward to meeting Buddy from Brooklyn in the Big Apple, and then, who
knows, hopefully meeting others down the road.
Tom
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
http://www.geocities.com/athens/thebes/5591/
"Kelly" <kwit...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:8sj5v4$47t6$1...@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com...
>
>
> <antipos...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>
> I look
> > forward to meeting Buddy from Brooklyn in the Big Apple, and then, who
> > knows, hopefully meeting others down the road.
>
>I remember the great Christmas jukebox Dawna and Larry
>set up from everyone's lists of favorite Christmas songs, one of my
>first posts was either to thank them and/or add my own faves.
I was very touched by that. It was my sign that I had truly come home. I
never left the 70s NG again, and barring any technical/server problems I won't
...
Well, Nate, I can't say exactly when the "70s newsgroup" started, and
who first started posting here, but I know it's NOT me :-) I've known
about usenet back the days of the mainframes, though, because I used to
work with mainframes, and I remember our system administrator installing
the software here in American University - he was a friend of mine and
we used to chat on RELAY/IRC (a chat system on mainframes). This was
back when the word "internet" wasn't an accepted term! :-) I think it
was back in 1987 or '88 when there were only less than 100 newsgroups!!!
:-) Also, we used to use DUMMY TERMINALS (with black and green
monitors) to connect to the mainframe system (IBM VM/370).
>
> When did alt.culture.us.1970s begin? And where?
>
> Who has been here the longest?
My guess would be DAWNA and LARRY :-)
-Naz
TD, it seems like I've seen you here FOREVER! LOL. Are you sure it was
just last November that you started posting here? Now, I really feel
like I'm an institution here!!! :-) If you check my history in deja, my
oldest post there was 1996, but that doesn't mean I started using usenet
in 1996.
Can you believe I've been using usenet and NGs, in general, since
1987???!!
Ummm...why, Rach? Have I said anything that really ticked you off other
than that comment about you being a "good girl"? Anyway, it wasn't
meant to make fun of you or to degrade you - I was only joking, really.
And if I have said anything to upset you, Rach, please accept my most
sincere apologies. I'm really not the type of person who enjoy
upsetting people, especially GOOD people here, like you.
aleen the karaoke queen
Teu...@webtv.net wrote in message
<5004-39E...@storefull-222.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...
Jamie
> I've known about usenet back the days of the mainframes, though,
> because I used to work with mainframes, and I remember our system
> administrator installing the software here in American University -
> he was a friend of mine and we used to chat on RELAY/IRC (a chat
> system on mainframes). This was back when the word "internet" wasn't
> an accepted term! :-) I think it was back in 1987 or '88 when there
> were only less than 100 newsgroups!!! :-) Also, we used to use DUMMY
> TERMINALS (with black and green monitors) to connect to the mainframe
> system (IBM VM/370).
Good God Naz!
*cut to a parade of tubas and someone rolling out a "COMPUTER DINOSUAR"
banner!* : - )
Sc-ar-a-zoid! I hate those old beasts.
I'm still cursing our old System 36 here at the hospital. DAMNED THE
IBM HEIRARCHY!!!!!! I'm willing to rip out the coax here for free an
start puttin in my own thin clients.
Group Hug!
Jeff Troutman
I'll have to agree with you on that, but there is ONE THING I do miss
from the "mainframe days". That's being able to QUERY a user (any user
using a mainframe system) if he/she is online or disconnected. Also,
you can send a message to ANYONE who is online, like AOL messager,
except that the user doesn't have to have an AOL account. It's even
better on the VAX machine - you can "finger" someone's account and see
what the person is doing (it tells you if the person is in mail or
running a program, etc).
I'm only hoping something like that can be done on PCs sometime in
the future...:)
I'm not condoning this activity, folks!
Some people are very into thier privacy!
Doesn't matter to me. I don't have anything to hide.
Get Down, Baby!
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70nate.html
Awww....what a good idea Jeff!
(((((((((70s Group)))))))))))))
Naz Reyes (n...@american.edu) wrote:
: In article <8sk501$l6r$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
: a_nate...@my-deja.com wrote:
: > In article <8sj9e0$n5$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
: > Naz Reyes <n...@american.edu> wrote:
: >
: > > I've known about usenet back the days of the mainframes, though,
: > > because I used to work with mainframes, and I remember our system
: > > administrator installing the software here in American University -
: > > he was a friend of mine and we used to chat on RELAY/IRC (a chat
: > > system on mainframes). This was back when the word "internet"
: wasn't
: > > an accepted term! :-) I think it was back in 1987 or '88 when there
: > > were only less than 100 newsgroups!!! :-) Also, we used to use
: DUMMY
: > > TERMINALS (with black and green monitors) to connect to the
: mainframe
: > > system (IBM VM/370).
: >
: > Good God Naz!
: >
: > *cut to a parade of tubas and someone rolling out a "COMPUTER
: DINOSUAR"
: > banner!* : - )
: >
: > Sc-ar-a-zoid! I hate those old beasts.
: >
: > I'm still cursing our old System 36 here at the hospital. DAMNED THE
: > IBM HEIRARCHY!!!!!! I'm willing to rip out the coax here for free an
: > start puttin in my own thin clients.
: I'll have to agree with you on that, but there is ONE THING I do miss
: from the "mainframe days". That's being able to QUERY a user (any user
: using a mainframe system) if he/she is online or disconnected. Also,
: you can send a message to ANYONE who is online, like AOL messager,
: except that the user doesn't have to have an AOL account. It's even
: better on the VAX machine - you can "finger" someone's account and see
: what the person is doing (it tells you if the person is in mail or
: running a program, etc).
: I'm only hoping something like that can be done on PCs sometime in
: the future...:)
: -Naz
: Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
: Before you buy.
--
********************************************************
* *
* Francis McGill *
* a052...@bc.seflin.org *
* "Glory to God on High" *
* *
********************************************************
>How many of you used illegal drugs back in the 70s?
Well, I tried them but I NEVER inhaled (unless it was necessary)
Ang
Well, this was my first post (alt. ID) in this newsgroup way back when. I have
come and gone with lots of different ID's but always with "Ang" at the end. I
have been coming in a lot more lately.
Funny how your old posts can come back to haunt you eh? (ie. the who tried
drugs topic?) Yikes!
Ang
To e-mail me, drop "urpants"
Hmm ... this looks awfully familiar, did I make any confessions to the thread?
I must have been around before Nov '99 then, that's when my file starts but
it seems a lot longer. 'Course we have managed to talk about drugs at other
times around here so maybe I'm mistaken :-)
Cheers,
TD
I could whistle up an old tune
That your memory might recall
Rustle up some reminisce
'Bout the good old days and all
from Harry Chapin's "If My Mary Were Here"
Webmistress of the official a.c.s '70s site
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70s.html
The Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archive
http://i.am/tinyd
Is that a dig on our ages or what? :)
Dixon, Sandy, Erin, Francis, Molly, DavisK, Lorrie/TruetoBrad, Joy, and
(last but not least) Nadine were all here before us . . . hope we
haven't missed a name.
Dawna & Larry
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
--
~~A deadly secret lies within LAURA'S LEGACY, available @ Amazon.com
Our web site: http://scribes.virtualave.net/
alt.culture.us.1970s website:
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70s.html
Oh, come on, Dawna, you know THAT has nothing to do whatsoever on
that!!!! :-)
>
> Dixon, Sandy, Erin, Francis, Molly, DavisK, Lorrie/TruetoBrad, Joy,
and
> (last but not least) Nadine were all here before us . . . hope we
> haven't missed a name.
>
> Dawna & Larry
Well, there you go...Molly and Francis are much younger than you and
Larry and they've been here longer than you. Doesn't that tell ya
something? :)
Anyhow, I've known about usenet since I was probably around 17 or so (in
high school) because our high school had a MAINFRAME and a computer
room, in general, back when most high schools never used any of these!
:)
-Naz
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5591/
"Naz Reyes" <n...@american.edu> wrote in message
news:8sqgd6$uja$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <8soonu$fl0$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Oil Impressionist <oil_impr...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > In article <8sj9e0$n5$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> > Naz Reyes <n...@american.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When did alt.culture.us.1970s begin? And where?
> > > >
> > > > Who has been here the longest?
> > >
> > > My guess would be DAWNA and LARRY :-)
> > >
> > > -Naz
> >
> > Is that a dig on our ages or what? :)
>
> Oh, come on, Dawna, you know THAT has nothing to do whatsoever on
> that!!!! :-)
>
> >
> > Dixon, Sandy, Erin, Francis, Molly, DavisK, Lorrie/TruetoBrad, Joy,
> and
> > (last but not least) Nadine were all here before us . . . hope we
> > haven't missed a name.
> >
> > Dawna & Larry
>
> Well, there you go...Molly and Francis are much younger than you and
> Larry and they've been here longer than you. Doesn't that tell ya
> something? :)
>
> Anyhow, I've known about usenet since I was probably around 17 or so (in
> high school) because our high school had a MAINFRAME and a computer
> room, in general, back when most high schools never used any of these!
> :)
>
> -Naz
>
>
Buddy, you may think that I'm one of those snot-nosed, snobs but I'm
not. I'm as down-to-earth as they come :)
But the truth is...my high school, T.C. Williams High School in
Alexandria, VA ranked in the top 50 best public schools in the U.S.A. in
1982/83 - I believe it was number 40. It was considered even better
than some of the best private schools in the whole U.S.!
If you wanna catch a little history of T.C. Williams, watch the movie
"Remember The Titans" by Denzel Washington. It's about MY school back
in 1971!!! ;-)
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5591/
"Naz Reyes" <n...@american.edu> wrote in message
news:8st2jt$pa6$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <a17I5.529$MR3....@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> "The Wanderer" <rosieon...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Wow Naz! Did you go to George Jetson High School? LOL.
> >
> > --
> > Buddy
> > from Brooklyn
>
> Buddy, you may think that I'm one of those snot-nosed, snobs but I'm
> not. I'm as down-to-earth as they come :)
>
> But the truth is...my high school, T.C. Williams High School in
> Alexandria, VA ranked in the top 50 best public schools in the U.S.A. in
> 1982/83 - I believe it was number 40. It was considered even better
> than some of the best private schools in the whole U.S.!
>
> If you wanna catch a little history of T.C. Williams, watch the movie
> "Remember The Titans" by Denzel Washington. It's about MY school back
> in 1971!!! ;-)
>
Okay, then I will! :))))))))))))))) <ducking all the way out the door>
Actually, I spent my high school years in a snooty area, so I have room
to talk. I'm just as down to earth as Naz, right? Right? I said,
RIGHT???????
Dawna
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5591/
> "Naz Reyes" <n...@american.edu> wrote in message
> news:8st2jt$pa6$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > In article <a17I5.529$MR3....@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> > "The Wanderer" <rosieon...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > > Wow Naz! Did you go to George Jetson High School? LOL.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Buddy
> > > from Brooklyn
> >
> > Buddy, you may think that I'm one of those snot-nosed, snobs but I'm
> > not. I'm as down-to-earth as they come :)
> >
> > But the truth is...my high school, T.C. Williams High School in
> > Alexandria, VA ranked in the top 50 best public schools in the
U.S.A. in
> > 1982/83 - I believe it was number 40. It was considered even better
> > than some of the best private schools in the whole U.S.!
> >
> > If you wanna catch a little history of T.C. Williams, watch the
movie
> > "Remember The Titans" by Denzel Washington. It's about MY school
back
> > in 1971!!! ;-)
> >
> > -Naz
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
--
~~A deadly secret lies within LAURA'S LEGACY, available @ Amazon.com
Our web site: http://scribes.virtualave.net/
alt.culture.us.1970s website:
http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/70s.html