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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Dude
you joined in 2003

Mike

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he probably was under a different name t first. like me. i registered and have been here since oct 04 on another name. it happens.

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What was that?

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1993 - unicycling mailing list started.
1995 - rec.sport.unicycling newsgroup
2001 - unicyclist.com forums

All are linked together.

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Re: Gilby, when did this forum really begin?

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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David posted on the Usenet newsgroup before he joined unicyclist.com as a forum member.

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i see

sorry for my ignorant post

mike

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I dont see why in the world you would want to though…

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Re: Gilby, when did this forum really begin?

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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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.

-Dylan

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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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Re: Gilby, when did this forum really begin?

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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