Some credit it as the birth place of the men’s rights movement.
I kind of like the threads like this one. It’s a person asking if anyone has bootleg VHS copies of the movies, I guess before there were any legitimate home video copies available.
That means most people on these forums were talking about memories they had of the movies from a theater. That’s kinda neat to me.
Also I like how a bunch of posts are really optimistic they’ll get to see more Star Wars movies by like 1986
i feel a tiny (but not too much) sorry for you. criminal action out on the open public with disregard for the law makes a strong legal case against you. and doing it in a newsgroup which LucasFilm folks must surely read takes a whole bunch of GAUL. (perhaps you could go for the insanity defense?)
normally i would just let the other comments stand, but in this case i feel it is important for USENET folks to strongly condemn your action. legal stuff aside, your type of request does harm to the net. USENET can be the forum for the exchange of useful information, and a place to relax and hang out. but using it for shady reasons is one way to ruin it for others.
stfu NERD
That nerd seems to be notable enough to be on Wikipedia, too. lol
Edit: i should say, nothing about his wiki page actually seems that noteworthy or significant.
He’s this guy right? That’s wild that he’s somewhat known for computer science stuff, but it’s par for the course when looking at any internet archive from the 80s. Half the people there were tech research nerds actively working on building the infrastructure of the internet. It’s surreal sometimes to see usernames on there with DARPA affixed to it. Department of Defense tech ghouls arguing about Star Trek continuity in 1983 on a BBS community of 3 people nationwide
