I've been a member of LWMB since 2003, but was on rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh. before that. Were any other LWMBers part of that list?
Posted by future king on :
I don't even know what that is (I've only been a LWer since 2007). Is it still in existence?
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
I remember that newsgroup, LT. I posted on there for about six months before I joined the DCMB.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I used to read it some back in college, and may have even posted a few times. At least a few of the frequent posters I remember are fans of the LW Facebook groups.
Posted by lil'rhino on :
I posted there regularly back in the day. The lack of humor was stifling though. Everybody was so dead serious!!
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: I posted there regularly back in the day. The lack of humor was stifling though. Everybody was so dead serious!!
I remember that, too. It also seemed that several days would go by before anything worthwhile was posted.
Compare that to LW, which has become a daily habit!
Posted by Legion Tracker on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: I posted there regularly back in the day. The lack of humor was stifling though. Everybody was so dead serious!!
I remember that, too. It also seemed that several days would go by before anything worthwhile was posted.
Compare that to LW, which has become a daily habit!
Yeah, rhino and HWL, that's how I remember it too. Last night I came across a 1999 e-mail I'd saved from that list, in which I was explaining my recent lack of participation because of the sniping and overall disagreeable atmosphere of the place.
It's good to be here now.
Posted by Legion Tracker on :
quote:Originally posted by future king: I don't even know what that is (I've only been a LWer since 2007). Is it still in existence?
fk, it was a newsgroup. I have no idea if it's still around.
Posted by superboymddjr on :
geez...that was a long time ago!!!! it started in hmmmm 1988 or 1989? right? wow..I remember Mark Waid there too as well as many others such as Michael Grabois, Sidne Ward ( I think that her name....)...and many others. You are making me an OLD man! LOL!
Posted by MLLASH on :
There was internet in the 80s? Kewl.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: I posted there regularly back in the day. The lack of humor was stifling though. Everybody was so dead serious!!
I remember that, too. It also seemed that several days would go by before anything worthwhile was posted.
I seem to recall, however, that the reason the group was originally formed was that people on the regular DCU newsgroup were complaining about the volume of LSH posts, and so they ended up forming a seperate group for LSH discussion! So it must have been pretty active at one point.
Posted by Exnihil on :
I never posted to the .lsh group, but did contribute a few topics to rec.arts.comics.dc.universe in 2000-01.
And yes, it looks like .lsh still exists, but with very minimal activity:
Someone should invite that "Jef Peckham" fellow over here.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
By the time I had Internet access regularly, newsgroups were on their way out. The only comics-related one to which I ever posted with any regularity was alt.comics.peanuts, which was the most civil newsgroup I ever encountered (far more so than a religious newsgroup in which I was active for a year or two).
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Ah the dustbin of obsolete internet protocols. Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP), havent been on since my ISP stopped carrying it.
The NNTP servers were hosted at each ISP, you would post to your local NNTP server and at some point your post would 'propagate' to every other News server in the world. In theory at least, NetNews traffic would often not propagate beyond your local server as it would time out during the uplink from your ISP to the next one.
I miss the old text-based internet. Are there any Gopher servers left?
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Ah the dustbin of obsolete internet protocols. Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP), havent been on since my ISP stopped carrying it.
The NNTP servers were hosted at each ISP, you would post to your local NNTP server and at some point your post would 'propagate' to every other News server in the world. In theory at least, NetNews traffic would often not propagate beyond your local server as it would time out during the uplink from your ISP to the next one.
I miss the old text-based internet. Are there any Gopher servers left?
Posted by Legion Tracker on :
quote:Originally posted by superboymddjr: geez...that was a long time ago!!!! it started in hmmmm 1988 or 1989? right? wow..I remember Mark Waid there too as well as many others such as Michael Grabois, Sidne Ward ( I think that her name....)...and many others. You are making me an OLD man! LOL!
I remember Michael and Sidne.
Posted by Legion Tracker on :
quote:Originally posted by Exnihil: I never posted to the .lsh group, but did contribute a few topics to rec.arts.comics.dc.universe in 2000-01.
And yes, it looks like .lsh still exists, but with very minimal activity:
Someone should invite that "Jef Peckham" fellow over here.
The name Jef Peckham has a familiar ring, too.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Michael posts here occasionally. Does anyone know anything about this Sidne person?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
She's Saturn Girl's mother!
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
Sidne Gail Ward was a regular on the newsgroup, as was Johanna Draper Carlson, wife of one-time Legion editor K.C. Carlson. That's probably how Imra's mom came to be named after Sidne.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
During the early reboot era, there were weekly chats between regulars of the newsgroup and the creative team, which would then be summarized in the newsgroup. They were generally quite informative.
Posted by Legion Tracker on :