I was one of the early birds. I don't care how early I was. But I am very curious how I found the list to join in. I don't remember a thing how I found the list. I do remember I tried to subscribe and failed at least twice. Then I succeeded a few weeks later when I tried it again. My computer was a Unix work station at work at SunMirco Systems. If I remember it correctly I used a browser called Mosaic on the Sun Sparc workstation with two monitors. I somehow found the list and subscribed to it. The list mails became my daily amusement from the work I hardly could get a break from. The kind of work I did made me use the Unix command "grep" hundreds of times a day. By using the command so many times I learned to be a C programmer that way. That's not fun. But the weekly Fryday stuff from Gerry was really cool. If I ever smiled at work it must be after reading mails from the list. David David
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: > From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> > Subject: Re: List member count > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 10:34 AM > >Who should be List member #1? I volunteer to be a number > back in the > >300 or 400 range... > > Gerry Skerbitz, the fellow who started up the list software > and for > whom the server (gerry.vanagon.com) is named. :) > > i think i was number 4 or 5 ... i wuz busy composing some > Phrydaye > Phollies crap and some of the old members like Ric Golen or > Richard > Jones snuck in ahead of me! > ;) > > unca joel |
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