<p dir="ltr">We didn&#39;t have phone lines for dialup in our barracks back in the mid 90&#39;s.. So I never had my first email address until 98 after I got out of the Marine Corps.. and I had no idea how to navigate the interwebs... I found out what the SE-R was the day after I bought my B13 and my car loving roommate made fun of me for not spending the extra $1000 for one... I was looking to do my first oil change when I saw the two different engine codes in the manual.. Even the engine code sounded cooler on the SE-R..</p>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 25, 2014 4:22 PM, &quot;Lawrence Weeks&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:lweeks@anabasis.net">lweeks@anabasis.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Nah, AltaVista was run by DEC. It was a project to demonstrate the power of the DEC Alpha processor. It was pretty cool (though those Alphas ran pretty hot!). Yahoo! bought it later from DEC.<div><br></div>
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Larry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:17 PM, George Roffe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:geo31@suddenlink.net" target="_blank">geo31@suddenlink.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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    I found the list via Alta Vista or Yahoo (IIRC Alta Vista was either
    part of Yahoo or they had an agreement).  It was in mid-late 96 I
    think (less than a year after moving to Houston).<br>
    <br>
    I&#39;m pretty sure Merlin was gone by the time I joined the list
    because I remember reading ABOUT him.<br>
    <br>
    I remember when Mike joined the list.  He stirred things up at first
    because he blew up some of the &quot;common knowledge.&quot;<br>
    <br>
    Geo<div><div><br>
    <br>
    <div>On 7/25/2014 3:30 PM, James McColl
      wrote:<br>
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      LOL, I sent that to Lawrence.  Just Lawrence.  I think I&#39;ve
      forgotten how to use a mailing list.
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        ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
        From: <b>James McColl</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:james.mccoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.mccoll@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>
        Date: Friday, 25 July 2014<br>
        Subject: longevity of the mailing list<br>
        To: Lawrence Weeks &lt;<a href="mailto:lweeks@anabasis.net" target="_blank">lweeks@anabasis.net</a>&gt;<br>
        <br>
        <br>
        I bought my NX2000 on October 9, 1996.  Still under warranty!  I
        had one of the a-pillars replaced free.
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        <div>I think I found the SE-R List in 1997.  Might have been
          1998.  I remember the first person I asked for help was
          Merlin.</div>
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        <div>Amazingly, I didn&#39;t go to my first SE-R Convention until
          this year.</div>
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        <div>It was a blast.  Especially going to Denny&#39;s after 3 AM,
          with Mark S., Hank and Ostlund.  You meet the nicest people
          that time of night...</div>
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        <div>James<br>
          <br>
          On Friday, 25 July 2014, Lawrence Weeks &lt;<a>lweeks@anabasis.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yeah,
                I&#39;m sure that&#39;s where I did too, probably under
                rec.auto.</span><br>
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              <div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Larry</span></div>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM,
                Wade Jackson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>srwadet@cox.net</a>&gt;</span>
                wrote:<br>
                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I
                  think I found out about the mailing list on the usenet
                  news groups.<br>
                  <br>
                  Wade<br>
                  member since 1992!<br>
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                    <br>
                    ---- Khiem Dinh &lt;<a>spdracerut@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                    wrote:<br>
                    &gt; bah.... webcrawler!<br>
                    &gt;<br>
                    &gt; -Khiem<br>
                    &gt;<br>
                    &gt; On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Matt Hunt
                    &lt;<a>mhunt@ecin.net</a>&gt;
                    wrote:<br>
                    &gt;<br>
                    &gt; &gt; On 7/25/14, 3:34 PM, Lawrence Weeks wrote:<br>
                    &gt; &gt; &gt; Jim, I bet you used AltaVista!<br>
                    &gt; &gt;<br>
                    &gt; &gt; Hotbot!<br>
                    &gt; &gt;<br>
                    &gt; &gt; matt<br>
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              -- <br>
              Lawrence Weeks                                    <a>lweeks@anabasis.net</a><br>
              Anabasis Consulting Ltd<br>
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Lawrence Weeks                                    <a href="mailto:lweeks@anabasis.net" target="_blank">lweeks@anabasis.net</a><br>Anabasis Consulting Ltd<br>
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