[Harp-L] Happy Birthday Harp-l 6 October 1992

[owner-harp-l@xxxxx]

I am including a link to the first month of posts, click on it if you're
curious.  https://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/1992-October/date.html  The
first several months are mostly people saying hey what is this, hello.  It
ramps up quickly from there.  The archives are worth looking at, much
harmonica history in those pages and a lot of or it was contemporaneous
accounting as it was all being discovered. 33 years old now.  The world
harmonica players live in now is so different, you tube videos, people
telling you how they played a certain piece and what harmonica(s) they
used etc.  I say this every now and again, there were no browsers when
harp-l started.  A lot of folks who were on the internet used .edu
accounts or government accounts to connect.  AOL existed but they were
small.  Access was mostly via dial up.  I look at my life and 1992 seems
like it was yesterday but the reality is so many things have changed, ok
well not harp-l really.  Plain text, no images or embedded links, a
dispersed harmonica community.  In the beginning we were it.  well there
was usenet now that I think of it.  I don't miss VI or ELM but I still use
PINE (pine is not elm) every now and again to cull garbage e-mails that
get dumped into root, so many that I cannot open the mailbox with a modern
tool.  Actually we fixed that problem so now I'm done with PINE, rambling
as usual.  As I paged through the archives recently I was aware of how
many of the early folks are no longer with us, Bob Williams, Jack Ely,
Bruce Steinberg, Tim Moody, the list is too long.  harp-l-listowner