[ih] 40 years ago net.motss was newgroup'd

[Michael Thomas]

I should note that this is a little NSFW, not terribly but it's frank 
about the history.

Mike

On 8/7/23 4:38 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> I wrote this piece earlier this year that chronicles the early days of 
> the net and Usenet in particular. I know that Usenet started out with 
> uucp (and possibly other transports), but it was soon more widely 
> distributed with NNTP. For those who don't know, net.motss which 
> turned into soc.motss was the internet's first gay newsgroup. It was 
> created by Steve Dyer late of BBN. It was a purposefully cryptic name 
> to fly under the radar.
>
> I have often wondered if the commercialization of the internet had 
> happened just 5 years earlier whether it could have made any dent in 
> those terrible days. Lack of information was the enemy back then, and 
> the internet provided a cure even if it was for a tiny audience at 
> first. But it was a magical group in many ways and the the lifelong 
> friends motss created was something very special.
>
> https://enervatron.blogspot.com/2023/02/40-years-ago-socmotss-was-newgroupd.html 
>
>
> enjoy, Mike
>