Twenty Years of DargonZine

[ornoth]

While the date is approximate, this is essentially the 20th anniversary of my founding of FSFnet, the electronic magazine which evolved into DargonZine. It’s by far the longest-running electronic magazine on the Internet, and its mission-to help aspiring amateur writers improve their craft-has been my real “life’s work”.

What follows is an email

Comments

[pookfreak]

Mazel Tov on 2 decades!

[awfief]

yay! You rock.

[angelovernh]

Happy Anniversary! ;)

[edschweppe]

Congrats on two decades with many more to come!

Although I have to take issue with one comment:
No compact discs, no cell phones, no laptops, no PDAs, no MP3 players, no ATMs, no GPS, no digital cameras, not even color computer screens.

Maybe there weren't any ATMs or color monitors up in Orono back in 1984, I can assure you that there were such beasts at Johns Hopkins way back in 1979.

Hmm. Well, I can assure you that the ATMs were at JHU in 1979, because I ran my account dry that year. :-( I can't swear for sure that the Textronix graphics monitors were there in '79 because I didn't start mucking around with the CS lab until the fall of '80, and that's where they were. But I'm absolutely certain that they were around before 1984.

[ornoth]

ATMs came to Orono in 1986. You're right, they probably were elsewhere earlier.

Actually, you're right. I used a Tektronix terminal a couple times at UMO for -- of all things -- Russian homework, as it had a Cyrillic font. Though we're talking something that looked more at home in a Gemini capsule than what anyone would think of as a "graphics workstation" today.

[lothie]

*worship*