Dog3 wrote:
> "Max Hauser" > wrote in
> :
> >
> > ... prior to late 1986, the group was called net.cooks.
> > ... a sample from 1983, as currently archived by Google:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/5zbd2
> >
> > [Anecdote on how that message came about]
> >
>
> Thanks Max, I could not remember. In '77 I was not
> sure what server what was on. Usenet was so new then.


Very new: It had not been born yet! Newsgroups (and by extension,
self-service public Internet forums in general) are attributed to Steve
Bellovin at UNC-CH in 1979, and to his associates who converted his
original script into source code. (I'm using "Usenet" in the
traditional meaning, which is to say, newsgroups. Whether carried over
the Internet proper or by other means, as usual.)

My first contact with the Internet proper (called ARPAnet then, and a
few years later, ARPA Internet) was very cursory and was in 1976. On
the other hand, one person I knew in those days, who reads this
newsgroup and whom I won't name, at present, was so active at playing
around with the Internet in those days that he got arrested, or at
least interviewed at uncomfortable length, by the FBI I believe. In 76
or 77. The wild old days.


Cheers -- Max