For anyone interested in the origins of the internet as we know (and love) then I recommend a read of
Darren
In message , Roger writes
So can anyone find my first post?
it would have been as snipped-for-privacy@cetltd.demon.co.uk and it was spam
How about:
The message from geoff contains these words:
16/2/98"We recondition PCBs fans, time clocks and actuators (and descale heat exchangers) for central heating boilers. Compare the prices with new items. We also give a 12 month guarantee. We have been trading for five years and have built up a good reputation and provide a professional service"
Apologies for reposting spam. :-)
Did you get into trouble?
I really meant in uk.d-i-y
I know I spammed the group and got well flamed for it
In message , Roger writes
Ah - that's the one
so that's my 10th anniversary in 10 days time then ...
scary !
Closest I could see is:
I got flamed and threatened (by Matthew) IIRC
Still Roger found the original post - 10 years, eh ?
Newcomer!
cor (new word that). what an old fogey ...
Oops, found one for when you were at school!
One could waste a lifetime talking to you lot!
(oldest post of mine I can find is Mar 95 which is probably close to when I first got a demon account)
compiler many years ago (in basic on an Atari 800). It worked but was rather slow, so he then re-wrote it in BCPL and used it to compile itself etc.
It predates the Internet, and had a much wider spread than the early Internet. We used to get some groups on a dialup uucp feed in the early 1980s, which was the main transport for Usenet at the time, but a good number of the Usenet links around the world then were were magtapes sent in the post.
Deja had been falling apart prior to Google taking over the archive and in the final month or so, it couldn't search back more than around a 6 months to a year. I started archiving uk.d-i-y at that time, thinking that it might otherwise all get lost. I stopped when Google got the archive back up working.
I sent them some archives which I had dating back to something like 1993, but they were sparse (it was a newspool which was being accidently archived occasionally). I think uk.telecom would have been the main uk group in my archive (and several non-uk groups).
He started off as John Burns-Curtis.
I suppose with a moniker like that Adam sounds quite reasonable.
IME that's the "normal" way to write compilers.
M.
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