Re: BOUI - A wedding photographer from Brisbane invented Usenet?

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>, Steve 
Brooks <brookersteve913@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>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.

I think if any one can lay claim to being the for runner of Usenet  it 
would be the inventors of the  Fido BBS system.



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