Old Photos of Usenet Regulars

When John Gilmore isn’t crusading to protect air travelers’
privacy
, he blows off steam by presenting

random groups of headshots

of Usenet posters, as captured at Usenix conferences in “meatspace,” so
Usenet people could attach a face to a name in the days before web
pages made everyone as ubiquitous as they want to be. It
only took me three pages of these headshots to run into a former ANS cow
orker. Most-recoemmended are anyone whose email address ends in .uucp,
an old, just-about-obsolete domain for computers that used Unix-to-Unix
Copy Protocol to transfer mail and news in the days before an always-on
line was feasible.

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