On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:20:49 PM UTC-4, wrote:

I've been on usenet newsgroups since before it was called The Internet.

Ah, the ArpaNet, I remember it well. I think I got my
first Unix login around 1973 or 4. There was a lot of
controversy over whether the soc.something newsgroups
should be banned from company networks. Wild and woolly
days.

Jim Beckman