On Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:59:13 UTC+1, Jozxyqk  wrote:   
   > Hey, lurker old me again!   
   > I was doing some other self-stalking recently, and I found what I think might   
   > be my first-ever usenet post, which happened to be to atvrd. It looks like I   
   > may have had some trouble actually posting content; it's just a subject and   
   > a signature. I was probably lurking for a few weeks before trying to ask this   
   > question about Duane Dibbley, whatever it was supposed to be:   
   >   
   > September 12, 1994:   
   > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/alt.tv.red-   
   warf/g_7Yrs6xKG4   
   >   
   > It wasn't until November of that year that I started warming up and posting   
   > some more active content... And it was also during the brief time I was   
   trying   
   > to use the nick "Rimmer", before I got an, erm, proposition from someone who   
   > enlightened me to its other meaning on IRC.   
   >   
   > Anyone else still reading that posted earlier than this?   
      
   You beat me by two years but bloody hell it was a long time ago, in 1996, 22   
   years ago   
      
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.tv.red-dwarf/bija   
   sis%7Csort:date/alt.tv.red-dwarf/VgTwU-jQEt4/HCzeKKFzSjwJ   
      
   Scroll down a bit, rather embarassingly, I'm the one moaning about the other   
   poster not giving a spoiler warning for "Smeg Ups"!   
      
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