Re: Let It r.m.b.
- From: Sha1 <whisperingwind01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 21, 8:14 am, saki <s...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nil wrote:
On 20 Jul 2008, Jeff <yourimageunre...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
rec.music.beatles:
On Jul 20, 5:30 am, "BibsBro" <Bibs...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://sakionline.net/beatles/
History of this wonderful newsgroup from back as far as 1987!
How in the world do you click on the messages to read them?
You don't. When you read the instructions at the top and bottom of the
page, you find:
"Use Up & Down Arrow Keys and the return/enter key to select a post"
The interface for this archival collection of r.m.b. articles from 1987
was designed to work exactly the way the newsgroup would have been read
at the time, as Nil indicated, using up/down arrows and the "enter" key
on your computer. Hit the spacebar to view more of any single article.
You can navigate without using a mouse.
Many of us (pre-MS Windows) were reading Usenet newsgroups on a Unix
platform, so in keeping with the spirit of the time my husband, Bruce
Dumes, designed an authentic interface. Without his work on this
archive, all we'd have would be a crumbling paper archive of r.m.b. in
its earliest days. And of course we owe the late Jim Kendall a great
deal for having kept the crumbling bits of paper in the first place,
from which the OCR and software engineering was done.
As a concession to me (whose eyes are not what they once were), the
black text/white background option was added. Though green/black was
authentic for a lot of VT100 terminals at the time, I can't read the
green text/black background for long anymore.
Google's archives have only a few r.m.b. articles from 1988, nothing
from 1987 (last time I checked), while the newsgroup proper begins for
them in 1989. When Google's predecesor DejaNews was collecting magnetic
tapes (or whatever the medium was) of Usenet from its various sources,
no one had the first few months of r.m.b. Groups in the rec* hierachy
were not scrupulously preserved like those in the sci* and other
categories, alas.
The newsgroup was different back then. To put it in perspective, this
was before the release of Mark Lewisohn's "Recording Sessions", so a lot
of discussion was about Beatles tracks, variants, bootlegs, and the like.
This r.m.b. archive may be less interesting to newer denizens of the
newsgroup, but I recognize a lot of familiar names from out of the past.
I even remember my first article---I was scared to death posting it. But
the folks here treated me nicely enough during those very early days.
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Thanks everyone for posting the history of this usernet,and 4 sharing
your comments about how things were back then,as well as your clear
explanation about how 2 access the info,ok accepted that I may know
about Beatles & John,but it's great to also know about the history of
this Usernet group,what a great achievement,Well Done is in order for
all those involved in it's creation,I agree & hope that this group
never fades out because of too many usernet groups,as this one is
special with a very special history,which was not easy to create this
group in the first place as well as retain & maintain data about the
Beatles.A round of applause well deserved :)
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