Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:43:27 05/21/04
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On May 20, 2004 at 22:44:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 20, 2004 at 17:04:29, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On May 19, 2004 at 23:34:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 19, 2004 at 11:57:39, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >>> >>>>On May 19, 2004 at 11:33:36, Mike S. wrote: >>>> >>>>>On May 19, 2004 at 10:59:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Yet i didn't hear you complain during Jakarta... >>>>> >>>>>Jakarta was 1996. I don't know about Andreas, but I wasn't even online yet. CCC >>>>>didn't exist yet AFAIK (don't know if rgcc existed). >>>> >>>> >>>>I first went online in the autumn of 1995 but it took me another two years and >>>>Fritz 5 to get me interested in Computer Chess. :-) >>>> >>>>Andreas >>> >>>r.g.c.c existed in the 1980's. Mike Valvo played deep thought a 2-game move >>>every day or two type match around 1990 or so. CCC came around 1996, maybe >>>early 1997. >> >>Sept. 97 > >OK. Your memory is better there. :) > >But I was "close". :) Probably you were right on the point because - what means "when", was it the beginning of the first public exchange or when the secret talkings began in the founder "group". How foolish to ask if you remember that the internet began in the 80s! I can't believe it. Apart from a different technique could you really "talk" with one another at that time? Or was it the exchange of what we would call emails now? Did you ever calculate how much time you lost by just typing postings to answer questions and explain things to people? Why do you sac so much time of your life? What is your main motif? Please let some people call me names but I think I can, other than some younger guys, although I'm anything but a computerchess expert, I can understand the value of your daily presence. What would you say, was the internet for you a worthy challenge or the evil seduction to an addiction? Thanks for all the time. > > >> >> >> >> >>> Steve can probably answer that. I was playing with the first >>>version of crafty on what was (at the time) called FICS in December of 1995. It >>>later became ICC as we know it today, a couple of years later. The internet is >>>a lot older than Al Gore would have you believe. :) I had email in 1980 or a >>>bit earlier if you count the more limited arpanet network run by basically DOD >>>and DOE.
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