Software and People

I don't usually join in with random memes but this one has the old geezer in me started already. Via All Things and The Silent Penguin, we are asked to point to our olders archived usenet post. Bring on t' four Yorkshiremen. When I were a lad...

My first usenet post would have been in about 1983. However, most of the posts from that era don't seem to have been archived (until someone loads up the tape or disc-pack equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls). My first messages in the DejaNews/Google archives are this one and this one from 1984.