I was one of the early birds. I don't care how early I was.
But I am very curious how I found the list to join in. I don't
remember a thing how I found the list. I do remember I tried
to subscribe and failed at least twice. Then I succeeded a few
weeks later when I tried it again.

My computer was a Unix work station at work at SunMirco Systems.
If I remember it correctly I used a browser called Mosaic
on the Sun Sparc workstation with two monitors. I somehow
found the list and subscribed to it. The list mails became
my daily amusement from the work I hardly could get a break
from. The kind of work I did made me use the Unix command
"grep" hundreds of times a day. By using the command so many times
I learned to be a C programmer that way. That's not fun. But the
weekly Fryday stuff from Gerry was really cool. If I ever smiled at
work it must be after reading mails from the list.

David

David

--- On Sun, 1/4/09, joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:

> From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
> Subject: Re: List member count
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 10:34 AM
> >Who should be List member #1? I volunteer to be a number
> back in the
> >300 or 400 range...
>
> Gerry Skerbitz, the fellow who started up the list software
> and for
> whom the server (gerry.vanagon.com) is named. :)
>
> i think i was number 4 or 5 ...  i wuz busy composing some
> Phrydaye
> Phollies crap and some of the old members like Ric Golen or
> Richard
> Jones snuck in ahead of me!
> ;)
>
> unca joel