Re: [Zero] 20 years and counting

Pardon the delay, but I have been able to successfully transition the following paper artifacts into digital form:

• Exhibit 1 (zero_beer.jpg): A plea from one early zero (yers truly) to other zeroes to go imbibe.  The lengths I had to go to in those days to get people to go out for a beer-- sheesh!  This may be the earliest remaining evidence of Thursday night drinking in zero history.  Could be 85/86/87-- the brain cells containing this information have long since shuffled off this mortal coil [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_coil].
  

• Exhibit 2 (jeff_benin_drawing.jp): A crude Macpaint drawing from one Jeffrey A Templon circa 1987 presaging Barbara's and my "big adventure" in Afreeka.

In my archives, I also found the invitation to the Ghetto Halloween Party of Doom (which featured magazine collage art) and the handwritten map for the 86 Caswell beach trip (remember handwritten maps??).  If any old-timers are interested in these, let me know and I'll scan/send them.

One last point: In the early days, the list was called the 'brain-dead' list, if I recall correctly.  i think BOG turned it into the 'zero' list.

Are we old yet?

I think so.

Rich,
whose scanner caught fire as he was saving these images to disk.  it is now ON FIRE (tm).




Jeff Templon wrote:

Yo,

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, <howardlander@mindspring.com> wrote:

For Bill, Cathy and myself et al it was a Masters in Computer Science at UNC-CH. But one of the things I like about this list is how much it has spread out. It is sort if impressive that after 20 or so years, this list is still as active as it is.

Yeah.  It's actually a bit older than 20 years.  I went digging off in archive land, but found nothing earlier than 1989.  I am pretty sure Rich went to Benin in '87, and the list predates that.  I am pretty sure it didn't exist before 1985 though.

 

You're right, it's still pretty active for a list that old!  The messages are slightly less weird these days, I guess somebody must have given Crad some tranquilizers.

                    JT

 
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