Great Moments in the History of the Net

JanH

The excellent search engine Google not only indexes a significant part of the www, it also contains a massive archive of Usenet discussions. Some of the old timers here participated on Usenet while the world wide web was just a glimmer in the imagination of Tim Berners-Lee. I actually participated on both sides of the JW/exJW wars from late 92 onwards.

Find links to many "firsts" and the earliest postings on diverse topics like the aforementioned Berners-Lees' annoucement of the WWW, first mention of Microsoft, Madonna, the Berlin Wall coming down, the Chernobyl meltdown, and of course the WTC 9/11 attack, at: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Kudos to Google for providing both the treasure chest a usenet archive is, and for digging up these gems.

- Jan
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- "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")

Amazing

Hi JanH: Thanks for the links. I have some extra time on my hands in the next couple of weeks ... so this will be great to check out. I very much appreciate you taking the time to share these links.

JanH

Thanks, Amazing. Glad to hear you are in good spirits! I hope you recover quickly.

- Jan
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- "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")

Imbue

Thanks for the information Jan...

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"The only good elite are dead elite!!"-Naeblis
(Ok! He borrowed it)

Rado Vleugel

Hi JanH,

I found a thread where some of us are mentioned:
<Start>
Search Result 9
From: [email protected] ( [email protected])
Subject: Re: question for PB
Newsgroups: alt.religion.jehovahs-witn
View: Complete Thread (23 articles) | Original Format
Date: 2000-11-22 05:30:05 PST

G'day Tinks,

I have had personal contact with about half of this group. Here is my
(just a simple independant worker) accessment.

Prominent Bethelite : Mad genius. Jury still out on 'bloke
status'.LOL
Jan Groenveld : Thick Christian. great anti-cult worker.
Raymond Franz : Thick Christian
Timothy Campbell : No Comment.
Rick : Cracked Christian?
Carl - Olof Jonsson : Sane genius
Norman Hovland, : Sane athiest
Jay Hess : No comment
Randall Watters : Cracked Christian?
James Penton : Thick Christian?
Joseph Mesko : Great bloke, no man/gods fool, deceased :(
Dougall Checkets : Great bloke, no man/gods fool, alive and
kicking.
Christophe v. d. Tuyler: -
Kent Steinhaug : Great bloke, Athiest Viking, fundy/WBTS
slaughterer.
Antonio Sant : -
Duane : -
Magnani : -
Cy Holt : -
Richard Mackinnon : -
B. J. Kotwall : Excellant WBTS fighter (from my home town)
Mr. Gedanken : High IQ. no gods fool
A Friend : Thick Christian
Allan Feuerbacher : High IQ Great bloke. Athiest. Excellant WBTS
fighter.
focus : Never heard of him
Dr J. Muramoto : Good WBTS fighter
David Reed : No comment
Richard Francis : -
Jerry Bergman : No Comment
Philip Sharman : -
Kenneth Raines : No comment
Rado Vleugel : No gods fool. great artist and Borg fighter.
<end>

I am the last who's mentioned ;-)

Rado Vleugel
http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/

Simon

Cool link JanH ... thanks!

JanH

Ouch, this really took me down memory lane...

This brings up my rabid debates with dubs over the ages: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=talk.religion.*&as_uauthors= [email protected]%20&lr=&num=100&as_scoring=d&hl=en

I found one particular debate about child molestation from early 96. JW defenses haven't changed that much:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&threadm=rmorgan.510.04EFCD5A%40rmorgan.ultranet.com&rnum=10&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Djan%2Bhaugland%2Bgroup:talk.religion.misc%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3Drmorgan.510.04EFCD5A%2540rmorgan.ultranet.com%26rnum%3D10

Ahh, memories...

(K, you'll have to copy & paste the first url manually)

- Jan
--
- "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")

Hmmm

What, no "first use of the term Troll" or "Newbie"?

No "First grasping comparison to Hitler/Nazis"?

Hmmm

Hey Jan,

I just read some of those older threads. Is that Mustard guy YouKnow?

JanH

Nah, YK is himself. Mustard guy is a living non-jw troll. He's out to have fun, including posting "so what" to victims on abuse groups. He obviously have lots of fun doing that. Very plonkable.

- Jan
--
- "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")

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