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  1. Re:International views of Canadians Vs. Americans on Is The U.S. No Longer The Choice For Freedom? · · Score: 1

    So basically what you're saying is Americans are like English football (soccer, for Americans) fans.

  2. Re:made linux mainstream? on Red Hat Claims They Started The Open Source Revolution · · Score: 1

    Soft Landing System, IIRC.
    When everything, including X, fitted on 30 floppies, and cdrom drives were just coming down from the 5-digit pricerange (SCSI-1 of course).

  3. Re:Hey! on Usenet Archive from 1981 · · Score: 1

    I must disagree. FidoNet was a lot worse than Usenet was at that time. Spam, lots of irrelevant nonsense and flaming were quite common on FidoNet, around 1990. UseNet was at that time virtually free of that. Of course it all changed when Usenet became accessible in non-academic, non-government environments (read AOL).
    (2:283/309.5 was my first number, several others lost in the mists of time to follow)