Happy Birthday to Greenguy And Jim's Ultimate Adult Webmaster Board

[grzepa]

Happy birthday to the best board out there !

[Vivid Jason]

Congrats guys! You have created a truly useful resource for all of us

[Linkster]

a little trivia

In 1984, back in the Stone Age of the internet, a message was distributed to the members of Usenet (the online messaging community that was one of the first forms the internet took) announcing that the Soviet Union was joining Usenet. This was quite a shock to many, since most assumed that cold war security concerns would have prevented such a link-up. The message purported to come from Konstantin Chernenko (from the address chernenko@kremvax.UUCP) who explained that the Soviet Union wanted to join the network in order to "have a means of having an open discussion forum with the American and European people." The message created a flood of responses. Two weeks later its true author, a European man named Piet Beertema, revealed that it was a hoax. This is believed to be the first hoax on the internet. Six years later, when Moscow really did link up to the internet, it adopted the domain name 'kremvax' in honor of the hoax

[Linkster]

An article by John Dvorak in the April 1994 issue of PC Computing magazine described a bill going through Congress that would make it illegal to use the internet while drunk, or to discuss sexual matters over a public network. The bill was supposedly numbered 040194 (i.e. 04/01/94), and the contact person was listed as Lirpa Sloof (April Fools backwards). The article said that the FBI was going to use the bill to tap the phone line of anyone who "uses or abuses alcohol" while accessing the internet. Passage of the bill was felt to be certain because "Who wants to come out and support drunkenness and computer sex?" The article offered this explanation for the origin of the bill: "The moniker 'Information Highway' itself seems to be responsible for SB 040194... I know how silly this sounds, but Congress apparently thinks being drunk on a highway is bad no matter what kind of highway it is." The article generated so many outraged phone calls to Congress that Senator Edward Kennedy's office had to release an official denial of the rumor that he was a sponsor of the bill

[Linkster]

and the best

Subject: ATTENTION: NOTICE!!!
From: Wendy aka Classact <classact@avana.net>
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-Id: <199704011705.MAA18442@tiger.avana.net>
Newsgroups: alt.med.fibromyalgia


Important!
I'm passing this along to you in the event you didn't receive it
from other sources.


In my effort to keep everyone (especially the new people)
informed of internet administrivia:



To: All Internet Users

From: Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Subject: Internet Cleaning

PLEASE PASS THIS NOTICE TO OTHER USERS WHO MAY NOT SEE IT!

As many of you know, each year the internet must be shut down for 24

hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which
eliminates dead e-mail and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows
for a better-working and faster internet.

This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m.
GMT on April 1 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 2. During that
24-hour period, five very powerful Japanese built multi-lingual
internet-crawling robots (Toshiba ML-2274) situated around the
world will search the internet and delete any data that they
find.

In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that
you do the following:

1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their
internet connections.

2. Shut down all internet servers, or disconnect them from the
internet.

3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the
internet.

4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the internet in any
way.

5. Avoid placing operating microwave ovens or toaster/toaster
ovens near your computer modem.

6. Avoid wearing nylon (or other dielectric fiber) undergarments
because of the possibility of electrical discharge.


We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some internet
users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any
inconvenience will be more than made up for by the increased speed and
efficiency of the internet, once it has been cleared of electronic
flotsam and jetsam.

We thank you for your cooperation.

Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sysops and others: Since the last internet cleaning, the number
of internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in
alerting the public of the upcoming internet cleaning by posting
this message where your users will be able to read it. Please
pass this message on to other sysops and internet users as well.
Thank you.
-

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by Linkster

and the best

Subject: ATTENTION: NOTICE!!!
From: Wendy aka Classact <classact@avana.net>
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-Id: <199704011705.MAA18442@tiger.avana.net>
Newsgroups: alt.med.fibromyalgia


Important!
I'm passing this along to you in the event you didn't receive it
from other sources.


In my effort to keep everyone (especially the new people)
informed of internet administrivia:



To: All Internet Users

From: Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Subject: Internet Cleaning

PLEASE PASS THIS NOTICE TO OTHER USERS WHO MAY NOT SEE IT!

As many of you know, each year the internet must be shut down for 24

hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which
eliminates dead e-mail and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows
for a better-working and faster internet.

This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m.
GMT on April 1 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 2. During that
24-hour period, five very powerful Japanese built multi-lingual
internet-crawling robots (Toshiba ML-2274) situated around the
world will search the internet and delete any data that they
find.

In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that
you do the following:

1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their
internet connections.

2. Shut down all internet servers, or disconnect them from the
internet.

3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the
internet.

4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the internet in any
way.

5. Avoid placing operating microwave ovens or toaster/toaster
ovens near your computer modem.

6. Avoid wearing nylon (or other dielectric fiber) undergarments
because of the possibility of electrical discharge.


We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some internet
users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any
inconvenience will be more than made up for by the increased speed and
efficiency of the internet, once it has been cleared of electronic
flotsam and jetsam.

We thank you for your cooperation.

Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sysops and others: Since the last internet cleaning, the number
of internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in
alerting the public of the upcoming internet cleaning by posting
this message where your users will be able to read it. Please
pass this message on to other sysops and internet users as well.
Thank you.
-

that is fucking hilarious

Happy B-day GG&J and THANKS!!!

[plateman]

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