Re: Old threads

On Mon, 19 May 2025 06:36:52 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 5/19/2025 1:28 AM, Mr Rob wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:34:29 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
 

On 18/05/2025 16:09, Mr Rob wrote:

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No, not old trousers, but old threads from this group from 15+ years
ago.
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I was going through my ridiculously large and totally unnecessary
collection of data sticks.
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I came across some archived posts from this group (hopefully you can
see them via this link at postimg).
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I'm pleasantly surprised by how many posters are still positing 17+
years later.
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https://i.postimg.cc/QdnrNvWM/oldT.png
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Gee, I've been here that long!

 
 
The oldest post that I have found (so far) attributed to anyone that
still posts now, using the same name, is - you'd probably guess that
it was Spalls of course. I found it in my sent items from a very old
instance of Agent

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Yeah, that Spalls person has been around for a while. They were here
before then too, but used a pseudonymn at the time.

Well if we're looking for oldest posts, it's easy to find them back to
the 90's on google groups.  My oldest in this group is 2006 I think, so
further back than that old bit that was found on a disused drive behind
a door marked "beware of the leopard."
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https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/3xqicze2VAA/m/2NZP9zbz1xMJ
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I was first posting to r.g.f.dnd at least since 2001, though originally
under my real name (gasp!) for the first few.

I've tried to collect a full archive of my own posts (because yes, I'm
that vain and self-important ;-), but between the different names I
posted under, the various news-servers I used, and the multitude of
newsgroups I frequented, there are some significant gaps.

I'm pretty good from 2006 onwards, I think, but prior to that its a
spotty record, with quite noticable gaps in the late-90s era. These
days I archive all my posts for posterity. It'll make a fascinating
record of how the insane used the Internet for some future scholar ;-)