honestly i don't see how cutting the clubs out will be that bad....
like what has been said before, we are already working on a master list of clubs that will provide links to more info about them.

if you have no funds to get it up just get a free yahoo group or something similar.

it wouldn't be much different than what is here now. just in a different place.

 

im sorry... but wasent the internet invented in 91?

did u mean 93?

 

Heh.
No, the internet first came "live" in October 1969 while I was in the central highlands of Viet Nam. My first post to a USENET news group was in 1982 while I was at Bell Labs, although the oldest post of mine I can still find using Google is from March 7, 1983...

The "1983" WAS a typo! It should have been "1984" when my first server went on-line as 'tijil.'

As to my 'domain' being a decade older (1984) than the World Wide Web (1994), I offer up the following link that at least shows it existing since 1986 in the official 1991 records (internet map): http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/refe...bak/u.usa.wa.2
(To find my server scroll down about 3/4 of the way in that page to 'tijil' which was the name of my server in Kent.)

My server carried e-mail and Usenet news for seven years...

I can't seem to find earlier listings of my server using Google, but the records are probably out there somewhere.

My domain is STILL tijil.org

As a last gasp of this little off-topic excursion, and an attempt to pull it back to Scion, here is my original internet server, "Boris" which had the 'tijil' domain address on-line from 1984-1991, sitting in my xB on his way to a packaging/shipping company last year. He was donated, complete with documentation and about 100 eight inch floppies, to a small computer museum in Illinois.



And lastly, Boris happily running, on display, at his new home in the middle of America...



(Sorry to drag this off topic, but I couldn't resist talking about Boris, who in many years of service only ever had two failures in his 24/7 service: His hard drive failed once and was replaced, and his 'ON' indicator light failed and I never bothered to put a new one in.)

OK, back to how to handle the club forums going away on ScionLife, everyone. :D

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Tom

 

wow... so why did i learn the net was invented in the realy 90's? those liars... i guess ive never really cared to actully research the internet myself

thanks for the nice info

now back to club talk!

 

hah! I was wondering when you'd enter to inform him of young Boris!

but yea the internet was around long before civilians were allowed to access the WWW.

 

No. You received MORE of a benefit than the regular premium member. A normal member pays for the upgrade and got everything you got, plus you got your own forum for a while. The premium membership was just a way to make sure that they person asking for the club was serious about it and not doing it on a whim.

Wait, I just looked at your account and you aren't a premium member anyway. Are you saying that you paid and you didn't get upgraded?

 

I don't think you were a premium member, if you were email me. This discussion is locked... the decision was made and I think the alternatives were discussed. Thanks for understanding, guys.