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- From: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
- Subject: Re: How did you find soc.motss?
- Message-ID: <Bzo3Gw.FG7@cs.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec20.231739.8064@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.003938.2207@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:38:54 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec21.003938.2207@news.columbia.edu> jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.231739.8064@reed.edu>
- >nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
- >>How did you discover soc.motss? Did you find it at the same time you
- >>found Usenet, or later?
- >
- >Since getting to college, a good number of my friends have been computer-
- >nerdish. JI kept mentioning things he'd read on 'sock.motts' (that's how
- >he pronounces it).
-
- Must be my greek accent... :-)
-
- I found soc.motss in the summer of 85, back when it was net.motss. It
- was the week after I had arrived in the US; I was at a pre-academic
- orientation program, and someone showed me how to access NetNoise
- (well, he only showed me how to read net.ibm-pc or something like that
- -- I found the rest on my own). Of course, I was so far inside the
- closet, (and also ignorant of american culture (I know, I know, a
- contradiction in terms, cut me some slack!)) that I found most of the
- discussions entirely too intimidating. I didn't really start reading
- soc.motss on a regular basis until the Fall of 89 or thereabouts, and
- my demuffining post was when I posted the X cursor bitmaps for the
- pink-triangle cursors. These days I'm lucky if I have *time* to read
- the stuff, thesis and all...
-
- /ji
-
- ______
- "Intellectuals trying to \ / ji@cs.columbia.edu
- out-intellectual other \ / B5 f+ w++ cd g+(+) k+? sv r- p+
- intellectuals" (Fritz the Cat) \/ ... It's all greek to me!
-