2023-10-25, 07:28 PM
(2023-10-23, 07:04 PM)netllama Wrote: hey, comp.os.linux was cool in the 90s !
Well I was thinking of rec.backcountry and it was probably in the 80s!
Imagine a bunch of nerd work out a backpack to Arc Dome. They meet at a hot springs (Spencer, IIRC) in the middle of nowhere in the long valley just east of the range. Well we all survived and had fun. Afterwards a bunch of us drove south down the valley to gee a geologic feature. The long dirt road of course when through the only ranch out there, and as it was the first day of hunting season, the kids were out selling lemonade (they could probably see traffic coming for miles, and there was not much!) so we stopped and chatted with some of the parents. They said "You don't look like hunters!" We started to try to explain about the internet, but they were all over it "Well of course we have modems and all, we are in the middle of nowhere, how do we keep track of anything"
Fun trip.