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ChuckNet:

--- Quote ---Am I ever! I've never posted one message in alt.tv.game-shows, and now, judging from the current state it's in, I don't plan to!
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Hell, the only thing worth reading there nowadays are PB's "Pyramid celebs" posts, which I can easily retrieve via Google and always C&P here (crediting him, of course) as a service to the board.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---Well, at least I can answer this question... November 17, 1993. Here's a link to the first ATGS post.
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A little bit more for historical reference:

Don Del Grande, who responded to that first post, is a member here.  That's got to make him the most veteran member of this community.  There are about a dozen of us (including Chris Lemon, Zach Horan, Chris Lambert, Dave and Robair Mackey, and, of course, your benevolent dictators) who still regularly post here and have ties to ATGS going back to 1994 and 1995.

When Mr. Lambert calls his website "The Original Game Show Page", that's not idle boasting.  It dates to October, 1994, back when most people still hadn't even discovered the internet.

For those of you joining the party fairly recently, it's really hard to describe what a wonderful place ATGS was for many, many years.  I have many close friends that I wouldn't have if it hadn't been for ATGS bringing us together.  I also know many people I consider friends that I've never even met in person, but for whom I would do favors at the drop of a hat.

As much as this forum has been successful in most meaningful ways, there was something special about the sense of community we established in those early days, when we were all just feeling our way around the new technology and simply discovering for the first time that there were people out there who knew more about game shows than we did!

melman1:

--- Quote ---there was something special about the sense of community we established in those early days, when we were all just feeling our way around the new technology and simply discovering for the first time that there were people out there who knew more about game shows than we did!
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This was the spirit in most of the early Usenet groups, I can speak for alt.fan.letterman which started just before Dave's run at NBC ended in 1993.  It is now pretty much inhabited by a group of "chatty Cathy's" - housewives, mostly - and has relatively little to do with Letterman or his show.  Even so, it never turned into the sewer that a.t.g-s became.

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'melman1\' date=\'Dec 16 2003, 12:35 PM\']
--- Quote ---there was something special about the sense of community we established in those early days, when we were all just feeling our way around the new technology and simply discovering for the first time that there were people out there who knew more about game shows than we did!
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This was the spirit in most of the early Usenet groups, I can speak for alt.fan.letterman which started just before Dave's run at NBC ended in 1993.  It is now pretty much inhabited by a group of "chatty Cathy's" - housewives, mostly - and has relatively little to do with Letterman or his show.  Even so, it never turned into the sewer that a.t.g-s became. [/quote]
 No - in fact I haven't run across one single NG that's gotten as bad as ATGS.

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