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Re: Origin of sci.physics.relativity

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> JanPB wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 3:30:40 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
> > > On 11/4/22 1:00 PM, JanPB wrote:
> > > > I've been on this group off and on since its inception (around 1995
> > > > IIRC)
> > > I first stumbled on sci.physics.relativity in 1982 when I joined Bell
> > > Labs. At that time it was transported via uucp (unix-to-unix copy, over
> > > dial-up modems at typically 1200 baud). Back then, USENET consisted of
> > > only a handful of U.S. universities, plus Bell Labs. It has grown since
> > > :) Apparently even in that very limited audience the relativity
> > > crackpots had disturbed sci.physics so much that sci.physics.relativity
> > > was created to quarantine the madness away from sci.physics.
> >
> > I joined Usenet in 1985.  The way I remember it, sci.physics.relativity did
> > not exist until mid-90s.
> 
> Can yous people get your stories straight?  sci.physics.relativity the
> 80's or 90's???? 1982 or 1995? One of yous is WRONG...


I suspect JanPB is WRONG since wayback machine only goes back to 1995-

https://web.archive.org/web/*/sci.physics.relativity


dat is as far jan's memory goes back...






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