I remember him from the late 1990s, I think. One of the various usenet weirdos I have somewhat fond memories of reading at the time. "Wow, who the hell were those freaks", I'd think, as I left a computer room at university, blinking at the sunlight (since the room I'd usually go to, on account of its good-sized set of underused HP9000s, had slightly dim lighting and zero windows), having just spent half a day of one of what would have been potentially the better years of my life reading what these people had to say. How could they find the time, I'd wonder. Didn't they have anything better to do? ;)
Still fascinating though. Usenet was like a crash course in seeing how people can be dicks. Still can't decide whether I regret it or not.
I REMEMBER THAT. I was in my early 20s and Usernet went from heaven to hell in about 6 months. AOL AND NetTV consoles.
Room titles went from Nerd/Hacker/CS to Single Meetup rooms, PR0N and Music topics. I left maybe just in time and moved to IRC (A-Net was also HELL the 4-chan Grandfather)????
Still fascinating though. Usenet was like a crash course in seeing how people can be dicks. Still can't decide whether I regret it or not.