[Wolves] A fun little game for you all :)

[Aquarius]

Jono Bacon spoo'd forth:
> OK, here is a little game for all of you. Let us see
> who can pull out of the hat the oldest usenet
> post/email/web page that states they are into Linux -
> in other words, try and find the first record that you
> are into Linux on the net and post us the URL. This
> little game has rules:
> 
> - The URL must have a date attached that shows when
> the message was published.
> 
> - You have to post a web URL
> 
> I found my earliest record as 24th April 1998 on
> alt.os.linux.slackware at
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=35410300.0%40news9.kcdata.com&rnum=69&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522jono%2Bbacon%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26start%3D60%26sa%3DN.

Hey, that's not fair. Back then I only had a 286. I can do you Minix,
19-03-1998:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1d65pdf.cx3nhq14a0pxsN%40host5-99-48-182.btinternet.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
(note, if you pick "original format" the URLs are shorter).

Aq.

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