[Harp-L] harp-l is now 27 yrs old

[Mike Rogers]

Tthanks for this continuing list.  Been on the list since 2001 and have gained so much from it.

Mike

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:19:33 -0400
owner-harp-l at xxxxx wrote:

> The list quietly turned 27 on October 6.  Chris Pierce our founder and the
> original list owner made the first and only post of that day but by the
> 7th a couple of others had trickled in.  A week later on October 13 things
> had picked up and we were off to the races.
> 
> To put this in perspective in 1992 there was no internet as we know it
> now.  There were no browsers.  The inception of harp-l was about as grass
> roots as you can get.
> 
> October of 1993 is when things started gathering steam.  Winslow Yerxa
> showed up on the list and listed harp-l in his HIP (Harmonica Information
> Publication) magazine which is how I believe I found harp-l.  I was late
> to the party though, June 1994 and by then this was a large and thriving
> list.
> 
> All of this was pre AOL.  Most of the people on harp-l had access to
> university or government e-mail accounts.  I was on a VAX cluster using
> PINE to compose, PINE, Pine is not Elm.  Elm was way better than VI but
> PINE was even better.
> 
> Different time but at the same time there was some truly amazing harmonica
> content on this list.  Over blows were mentioned in the first year,
> retuning showed up early too.  We're a lot less prolific now than we were
> in our heyday but harp-l continues to delight me with some amazing gems
> still being posted.
> 
> harp-l-listowner