Terry Pratchetts First ever post on Usenet

[Lorfarius]

Just thought you folks might find this entertaining:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/6d66f88060364dbb

[Leo Breebaart]

Post by Lorfarius
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/6d66f88060364dbb

Hey, some of us were there at the time (check the fourth post in
that thread)... :-)

[Daibhid Ceannaideach]

Post by Lorfarius
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread
/6d66f88060364dbb

No-one asked him if he was really Terry Pratchett! They just took his word
for it! I was taught that about 20% of early afp were people asking that,
so it's a bit disapointing that his first post didn't engender this.

[Leo Breebaart]

Post by Daibhid Ceannaideach
No-one asked him if he was really Terry Pratchett! They just
took his word for it! I was taught that about 20% of early afp
were people asking that, so it's a bit disapointing that his
first post didn't engender this.

I believe that in his early days on the net, Terry mostly saw
that kind of question in e-mail. To the best of my recollection
it was never the case that alt.fan.pratchett was sceptical about
who he was.

You have to take into account that this was 1992, long before the
Internet exploded, and alt.fan.pratchett was a quiet little
backwater consisting of about five posts *per day*. It never even
occurred to me that TP might not be for real -- trolls and
pranksters existed back then, too, but there really would have
been very little point to such a deception. And besides, from the
very first post it just *sounded* like Terry...

[Lorfarius]

Post by Lorfarius
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/6d66f88060364dbb

Sorry all forgot to add that I found this on google, they are celebrating 20
years of usenet, heres a list of some of the "first" things mentioned on
usenet:

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

[Ammut]

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/6d66f88060364dbb

Post by Lorfarius
Sorry all forgot to add that I found this on google, they are celebrating 20
years of usenet, heres a list of some of the "first" things mentioned on
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Fascinating. I'm not even being sarcastic!

Does/did TP himself frequent alt.books.pratchett ?

[Joerg Neidig]

Post by Ammut
Does/did TP himself frequent alt.books.pratchett ?

He does/did frequent this group, but not frequently.

Joerg

[Ammut]

Post by Joerg Neidig

Post by Ammut
Does/did TP himself frequent alt.books.pratchett ?

He does/did frequent this group, but not frequently.
Joerg

So that's a "No".

-Ammut

[Leo Breebaart]

Post by Ammut

Post by Joerg Neidig

Post by Ammut
Does/did TP himself frequent alt.books.pratchett ?

He does/did frequent this group, but not frequently.
Joerg

So that's a "No".

It means exactly what it says, wise guy.

Terry Pratchett has posted over 800 articles to
alt.books.pratchett, and those include posts made in October,
November, and December of 2004. Seems to me that ought to cover
any reasonable definition of the concept "frequents this group".

So that's a "Yes".

[Alex]

Post by Lorfarius

Post by Lorfarius
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/
6d66f88060364dbb

Sorry all forgot to add that I found this on google, they are
celebrating 20 years of usenet,

Would it be churlish to point out that they *were* celebrating it just over 3
years ago? :-)

[Sarah Warren]

Consider me entertained :-D