after reading in the printed version of NYTimes about Mosaic, I was the
first to install NCSA Mosaic on our department computer in 1993. Before
that it was message boards etc.
VW van history: a 1978 Bus in 1989 and my 1980 AC Westy Jenny in 1994
(still running but rusting away)

Karl.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 8:50 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
wrote:

> Yeah I appeared to be dropping the gloves but really I was just trying to
> stimulate a little holiday discussion :) It’s possible that having just
> turned 50 I am one of the ‘old timers’ but I appreciate hearing from you
> Really Old Timers!!!
>
> My first post was in 1999.  Who else remembers where they were when the
> internet was invented.
>
> Jeff
>
> > On Dec 26, 2021, at 7:43 PM, John A <xstreamcanadian@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Ha I was thinking when I read who can top that... most of us over 50
> can. Lol. My first was in 87 a 72 bus. Had one kind of vw or a few at a
> time ever since
> >
> > Happy holiday
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network.
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
> > Date: 2021-12-26 9:17 a.m. (GMT-08:00)
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Wallaced
> >
> > I bought my first '59 (a tintop) in 1972, picked up a copy of John
> > Muir's "How to keep your volkswagen alive and running for the complete
> > idiot" at the same time. That was the start... I learned to turn
> > wrenches with that book and my bus ... had some type of VW (usually a
> > bus) from then on.
> > I didn't find the list until 94 or 95...
> >
> > I do remember being Wallaced that first time!
> >
> > I didn't get my first westy (an 84) until 2007 or so. Sold it in 2013
> > (it was Subie powered by then). Didn't have a bus again until last
> > year (a maroon '90 tintop with a subaru 2.2), bought it off a small
> > used car dealers lot in Olympia where it had been sitting for awhile.
> > I hadn't bought a VW bus off a lot since 1990 when I bought the 86
> > Syncro from the dealer at Ala Moana Volkswagen in Honolulu (we were
> > moving to Chicago and the '79 I had was missing it's heater boxes).
> >
> > This morning I woke up to 2" of snow and it's still falling here
> > (Tahuya) at almost sea level on Hood Canal in Washington state.
> >
> > Merry Christmas everyone!
> >
> > Rob
> > vwrobb@gmail.com
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 28 years of Westfalia ownership this year! Who is out there that can
> top that :)
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
>