<div dir="ltr">Nah, AltaVista was run by DEC. It was a project to demonstrate the power of the DEC Alpha processor. It was pretty cool (though those Alphas ran pretty hot!). Yahoo! bought it later from DEC.<div><br></div><div>
Larry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:17 PM, George Roffe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geo31@suddenlink.net" target="_blank">geo31@suddenlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I found the list via Alta Vista or Yahoo (IIRC Alta Vista was either
part of Yahoo or they had an agreement). It was in mid-late 96 I
think (less than a year after moving to Houston).<br>
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I'm pretty sure Merlin was gone by the time I joined the list
because I remember reading ABOUT him.<br>
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I remember when Mike joined the list. He stirred things up at first
because he blew up some of the "common knowledge."<br>
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Geo<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 7/25/2014 3:30 PM, James McColl
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LOL, I sent that to Lawrence. Just Lawrence. I think I've
forgotten how to use a mailing list.
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From: <b>James McColl</b> <<a href="mailto:james.mccoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.mccoll@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Friday, 25 July 2014<br>
Subject: longevity of the mailing list<br>
To: Lawrence Weeks <<a href="mailto:lweeks@anabasis.net" target="_blank">lweeks@anabasis.net</a>><br>
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I bought my NX2000 on October 9, 1996. Still under warranty! I
had one of the a-pillars replaced free.
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<div>I think I found the SE-R List in 1997. Might have been
1998. I remember the first person I asked for help was
Merlin.</div>
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<div>Amazingly, I didn't go to my first SE-R Convention until
this year.</div>
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<div>It was a blast. Especially going to Denny's after 3 AM,
with Mark S., Hank and Ostlund. You meet the nicest people
that time of night...</div>
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<div>James<br>
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On Friday, 25 July 2014, Lawrence Weeks <<a>lweeks@anabasis.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yeah,
I'm sure that's where I did too, probably under
rec.auto.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Larry</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM,
Wade Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a>srwadet@cox.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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think I found out about the mailing list on the usenet
news groups.<br>
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Wade<br>
member since 1992!<br>
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---- Khiem Dinh <<a>spdracerut@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> bah.... webcrawler!<br>
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> -Khiem<br>
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Matt Hunt
<<a>mhunt@ecin.net</a>>
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> > On 7/25/14, 3:34 PM, Lawrence Weeks wrote:<br>
> > > Jim, I bet you used AltaVista!<br>
> ><br>
> > Hotbot!<br>
> ><br>
> > matt<br>
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