Misc.

[Mark Thibodeau]

The best newsgroups in the newsgroup heyday?

alt.movies.kubrick
alt.religion.scientology
alt.tv.mst3k

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> I believe the first non-tech newsgroup was LOVEHOUNDS, a group devoted to
> Kate Bush
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> The first (and very impressive) demonstration I ever saw of hyml through a
> browser was a jpg catalog of the 4AD catalog ("they shimmer like jewels")
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> On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Joel Gordon @JoelGord  7h7 hours ago
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>> As far as I can recall in the early 90s, there were 3 uses for the
>> pre-WWW internet: porn, email, and nerds talking Pynchon.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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