Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:08:21 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Wallaced
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I had an Internet client in 1993. I was invited by every Wednesday at 5:00 to view all the new websites that had come online in the past week. Usually about a dozen. We had to give that up by the end of the year. One of the most memorable was the webcam on the coffee pot at one of the labs at the University of CERN Switzerland.
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> On Dec 26, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> after reading in the printed version of NYTimes about Mosaic, I was the
> first to install NCSA Mosaic on our department computer in 1993. Before
> that it was message boards etc.
> VW van history: a 1978 Bus in 1989 and my 1980 AC Westy Jenny in 1994
> (still running but rusting away)
>
> Karl.
>
>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 8:50 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah I appeared to be dropping the gloves but really I was just trying to
>> stimulate a little holiday discussion :) It’s possible that having just
>> turned 50 I am one of the ‘old timers’ but I appreciate hearing from you
>> Really Old Timers!!!
>>
>> My first post was in 1999. Who else remembers where they were when the
>> internet was invented.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>>> On Dec 26, 2021, at 7:43 PM, John A <xstreamcanadian@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ha I was thinking when I read who can top that... most of us over 50
>> can. Lol. My first was in 87 a 72 bus. Had one kind of vw or a few at a
>> time ever since
>>>
>>> Happy holiday
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
>>> Date: 2021-12-26 9:17 a.m. (GMT-08:00)
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Re: Wallaced
>>>
>>> I bought my first '59 (a tintop) in 1972, picked up a copy of John
>>> Muir's "How to keep your volkswagen alive and running for the complete
>>> idiot" at the same time. That was the start... I learned to turn
>>> wrenches with that book and my bus ... had some type of VW (usually a
>>> bus) from then on.
>>> I didn't find the list until 94 or 95...
>>>
>>> I do remember being Wallaced that first time!
>>>
>>> I didn't get my first westy (an 84) until 2007 or so. Sold it in 2013
>>> (it was Subie powered by then). Didn't have a bus again until last
>>> year (a maroon '90 tintop with a subaru 2.2), bought it off a small
>>> used car dealers lot in Olympia where it had been sitting for awhile.
>>> I hadn't bought a VW bus off a lot since 1990 when I bought the 86
>>> Syncro from the dealer at Ala Moana Volkswagen in Honolulu (we were
>>> moving to Chicago and the '79 I had was missing it's heater boxes).
>>>
>>> This morning I woke up to 2" of snow and it's still falling here
>>> (Tahuya) at almost sea level on Hood Canal in Washington state.
>>>
>>> Merry Christmas everyone!
>>>
>>> Rob
>>> vwrobb@gmail.com
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 28 years of Westfalia ownership this year! Who is out there that can
>> top that :)
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>
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