Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Usenet history Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:16:38 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87ecel5hqh.fsf@localhost> References: <1157pqq$1n17h$1@dont-email.me> <115cs6r$1q2i3$2@news.xmission.com> <115d6o3$3cino$1@dont-email.me> <115itvo$24gjn$1@news.xmission.com> <115jvq6$1f7ih$1@dont-email.me> <87h5k3je1i.fsf@debian> <117j7dh$26aet$1@dont-email.me> <87cxuqjwup.fsf_-_@debian> <117ka81$2j1fl$1@dont-email.me> <118qtm3$3p81v$3@dont-email.me> <118rbe2$tq$2@dont-email.me> <3d5f3ac1-d583-4b5f-fc1f-6f11199ef85c@gerriscorp.com> <118sio3$eupe$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1111610"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+DDdQKG1JHLJuk996+bovnuF0FRcNGNxk="; posting-host="d150bc4b7b612b6dcec471c06d1dbee5" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+m2MiFZ31jtF1HIk0eOflJFv4es= sha1:L/B5t75GQgB67OrsTdlczjvG/DQ= sha256:YUfNS/G6k7TQ1aOOJG/5q4FOLsn/+7iqntLLpNty91o= sha1:E3qtQwyr2HbCNoCACUvTR4Adm8Q= sha256:0B3zvE8cf7h0jhMco1YwR8RtAcEB0e4tiL2M95NWzws= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:235686 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > Anybody remember CoSy, from the 1980s? From the University of Guelph? > BYTE magazine were using it for their online forums. Aug1976, TYMSHARE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare start offering their VM370/CMS-based computer conferencing system free to the IBM mainframe users group, SHARE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing) archives here: http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare I had cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get monthly tape dump of all VMSHARE files for putting up on IBM internal systems and network. Later when MD bought TYMSHARE, the SHARE organization had to come up with a way of rehosting the service. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970