From: martin@mydomain.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:21:02 -0700, The old geezer wrote:   
      
   > I believe the dropoff in corresponence in affz is due to the fact that   
   > there has been quite a dropoff in musical material by Mr. Zappa in the   
   > past 25 years.  Agree??                                     The Old   
      
   That could well have something to do with it, but also back in the day   
   there was no Google - only AltaVista - and in any case IIRC I discovered   
   alt.fan.frank-zappa when there was only e-mail, newsgroups, ftp, WAIS and   
   Gopher. The Cello and Mosaic Web browsers came later, followed by DECs   
   AltaVista search engine. This stuff all ran on Windows 3.0 if you   
   installed a 3rd party TCP/IP driver.   
      
   If you don't remember Cello, Mosaic and AltaVista you're a late arrival   
   at the costume ball, but Google was even later, only staggering into view   
   after Netscape Navigator.   
      
      
      
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