Gilby, when did this forum really begin?



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I did a search for the word 'unicycle,' and it turns up in some posts
from 1993 (4/15/93 was the earliest). But I'm fairly certain that these
pre-1999 posts were generated somewhere else. My hunch is that the
forum really got going in 1999, with minor changes made along the way.
I believe my first posts here came in early 2001, by which time Joe
Merrill and my brother and some other Unatics had been telling me about
the forum.


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David_Stone wrote:
> I did a search for the word 'unicycle,' and it turns up in some posts
> from 1993 (4/15/93 was the earliest). But I'm fairly certain that these
> pre-1999 posts were generated somewhere else.

I remember rsu starting in 1995 (easy for me to remember because it was
just a few weeks before I graduated from university and had to survive 3
years without internet access). A Google Groups search suggests 5 June
1995.

It looks as though the mailing list may have started on 19 January 1993:
<URL:http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/hypermail/index.html>

It was certainly there when I became interested in unicycling, which
would only have been a few months after that.

The first mention on rsu of unicyclist.com was on 9 March 2000. The
first combined mention of "forum" and "unicyclist.com" on rsu was on 6
September 2000. That surprised me, I could have sworn the forum was
going earlier than that.

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Gilby wrote:
> 1993 - unicycling mailing list started.
> 1995 - rec.sport.unicycling newsgroup
> 2001 - unicyclist.com forums
>
> All are linked together.


...to this day. But nowadays everyone seems to use the forum to post.
Does anyone ever still use the rec.sport.unicycling USENET newsgroup,
or even the mailing list?


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gkmac wrote:
> ...to this day. But nowadays everyone seems to use the forum to post.
> Does anyone ever still use the rec.sport.unicycling USENET newsgroup,
> or even the mailing list?

Yes. I find usenet very much more convenient to read and post to than a
web forum.

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gkmac wrote:
> ...to this day. But nowadays everyone seems to use the forum to post.
> Does anyone ever still use the rec.sport.unicycling USENET newsgroup,
> or even the mailing list?








Danny Colyer wrote:
> David_Stone wrote:
> > I did a search for the word 'unicycle,' and it turns up in some
> posts
> > from 1993 (4/15/93 was the earliest). But I'm fairly certain that
> these
> > pre-1999 posts were generated somewhere else.
>
> I remember rsu starting in 1995 (easy for me to remember because it
> was
> just a few weeks before I graduated from university and had to survive
> 3
> years without internet access). A Google Groups search suggests 5
> June
> 1995.
>
> It looks as though the mailing list may have started on 19 January
> 1993:
> <URL:http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/hypermail/index.html>
>
> It was certainly there when I became interested in unicycling, which
> would only have been a few months after that.
>
> The first mention on rsu of unicyclist.com was on 9 March 2000. The
> first combined mention of "forum" and "unicyclist.com" on rsu was on 6
> September 2000. That surprised me, I could have sworn the forum was
> going earlier than that.
>
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I dont see why in the world you would -want- to though...


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gkmac wrote:
> ...to this day. But nowadays everyone seems to use the forum to post.
> Does anyone ever still use the rec.sport.unicycling USENET newsgroup,
> or even the mailing list?


A good USENET news reader is more efficient for reading messages than
using a web forum. With a good USENET news reader you don't have to
click around to move on to the next message or the next thread. You
don't have to scroll as much while reading. It means you can read more
posts in less time.

With the volume of posts increasing here I have been entertaining the
idea of going back to USENET for post reading. It would allow me to
read more in less time.

And by a good news reader I don't mean Outlook Express, Outlook,
Thunderbird, or Mozilla. There are better news readers available that
are more efficient.


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I used to post through usenet back in the day... I also used to be
registered on here as ExtremeUnicycler. When I posted on
rec.sport.unicycling, I used to read every single new post, every day.
There are just waaaay too many now.

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Danny Colyer wrote:
> Yes. I find usenet very much more convenient to read and post to than a
> web forum.


Me too. Currently my news reader behaves funny though, to the effect
that I can read but not post. I'll have to reinstall it but for the
moment I read through Usenet and post through the forum.


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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:30:36 -0600, gkmac wrote:
> ..to this day. But nowadays everyone seems to use the forum to post.
> Does anyone ever still use the rec.sport.unicycling USENET
> newsgroup, or even the mailing list?

I use the mailing list exclusively. I wouldn't remember to check the
forum frequently enough, and I have no idea how or even if it
remembers which messages I've looked at, which my mail reader is
very good at.

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