Re: A Check In


Joe Osman wrote:
Raven Woman wrote:

According to the stats at google groups Gharlane stopped posting after
27 Oct 2000 and his death was announced in June of 2001. I think he
posted in half the groups I read at the time and I missed him sorely
in the other half.
--
John Duncan Yoyo

So I guess the earliest I was on here in some form was late 2000? Hm, I
didn't realize it had been that long! I thought I found the NG when the son
was four, which would put it . . . he's eight now . . . 2002 or so??

Anyway, a longish time, but not forever. What about other folks? Who's
been here since the NG's inception?

Jenn

When Google slurped up all the old Usenet messages I checked for the
earliest mention of Babylon 5 on Usenet. It was in rec.arts.sf-lovers
on Oct 3, 1989. The post is at http://tinyurl.com/q888g. After that
there's no mention in Google's Usenet search until January 1992. See
http://tinyurl.com/lmbcx. Edward Lee Whiteside was the main contributor
of info to Usenet at that time. There were posts on Amiga sites at the
time also, because they used Amigas and Video Toasters for the video
effects, and on Startrek sites. At about that time there was a mailing
list for information. In early 1993, Whiteside started posting on
Usenet in rec.arts.sf.tv synopses of Joe's postings in the Science
Fiction Roundtable on GEnie, a pay site that was quite popular at the
time. Joe also posted on Compuserve. See http://tinyurl.com/nynb8.
alt.tv.bablylon-5 started in February 1993, right before the pilot
aired. Joe started posting directly on alt.tv.babylon-5 in mid 1993.
See http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.babylon-5/about?hl=en. That
was the main source of information on Usenet until this site, which
started on March of 1994, about a month after the series first aired.
See http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5/about?hl=en.

To me it was an exiting demonstration of the internet's potential to
see the series come together so publicly and with such a large amount
of info from Joe that I felt a sense of ownership in the show before I
even sat down to watch the pilot.

Joe

Whoops, the unmoderated group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 started in March
of 1994 and this group in March of 1996
(http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated/about?hl=en).

Joe



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