Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:56:08 05/21/04
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On May 21, 2004 at 16:43:27, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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? > There were email facilities. A sort of "chat" facility was available. Etc. All prior to 1980, yes. :) >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? Remember what I do. :) > >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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