Re: BOUI - A wedding photographer from Brisbane invented Usenet?
by Steve Brooks <brookersteve913@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 3, 2008 at 05:02 PM
Big LN wrote:
> "Annika1980" <annika1980@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:df0b47e1-d7d2-432b-b84c-192c9beb882f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> wrote:
>>> Douglas wrote:
>>>> If someone had told me in 1989 that the BBS I started would
eventually
>>>> become Usenet
>>> http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.photo/msg/01b383a7d3a33dc3
>>
>> Douggie was Al Gore before Al Gore was cool.
>
> Huh? What's 1989 got to do with anything? Usenet was invented in 1979 by
> Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, Neither name sounds like Douglas's name to
me.
>
> 'Onya
I wouldn't put it past Doug to tell people that don't know his lies that
he invented the internet.
He is one strange cookie.
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'I invented the Internet' - Douglas