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Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: davemackey on December 01, 2007, 06:45:01 AM

Today is the 13th anniversary of the launch of GSN.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: Matt Ottinger on December 01, 2007, 11:54:18 AM

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'171028\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 07:45 AM\']
Today is the 13th anniversary of the launch of GSN.[/quote]
Which ought to give some of us some indication of how long WE'VE been doing this, since a lot of us early adapters were discussing the development and the planning for a 'game show channel' on Usenet years before GSN actually launched!

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: The Pyramids on December 01, 2007, 12:44:22 PM

What exactly was Usenet?

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: tpirfan28 on December 01, 2007, 12:48:10 PM

[quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'171044\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 12:44 PM\']
What exactly was Usenet?
[/quote]
Technical definition: from Wikipedia (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet\")

Laymen's definition:  alt.tv.game-shows, a Internet newsgroup.

My have times changed with GSN.  You were the cute little channel that was neat to watch.  Now yer the grungy, repetitive teenager who wanted to get away from its roots.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on December 01, 2007, 01:28:42 PM

[quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'171044\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 12:44 PM\']What exactly was Usenet?[/quote]
"Was"? You wound me, sir.

Well, me and a bunch of spammers.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: xavier45 on December 01, 2007, 01:36:02 PM

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'171045\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 12:48 PM\']
My have times changed with GSN.  You were the cute little channel that was neat to watch.  Now yer the grungy, repetitive teenager who wanted to get away from its roots.
[/quote]
At least now it seems the network is focused on Game Shows again. And the late night block has been a lot of fun to watch.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: clemon79 on December 01, 2007, 02:08:27 PM

[quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'171044\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 09:44 AM\']
What exactly was Usenet?
[/quote]
Excuse me, I have to go out and buy a case of liver spot cream...

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: Matt Ottinger on December 01, 2007, 03:03:51 PM

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'171051\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 02:28 PM\'][quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'171044\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 12:44 PM\']What exactly was Usenet?[/quote]"Was"? You wound me, sir.
Well, me and a bunch of spammers.[/quote]
The fascinating thing on the old newsgroup these days is the spammer who seems to believe (sincerely?) that British intelligence has been harrassing/spying on him for years.  Those stories and examples (which he's sent to a lot of mostly unrelated newsgroups) are weirdly cool.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: clemon79 on December 01, 2007, 03:34:31 PM

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'171059\' date=\'Dec 1 2007, 12:03 PM\']
The fascinating thing on the old newsgroup these days is the spammer who seems to believe (sincerely?) that British intelligence has been harrassing/spying on him for years.  Those stories and examples (which he's sent to a lot of mostly unrelated newsgroups) are weirdly cool.
[/quote]
Yeah, I can't figure out if that guy is a crackpot or a spammer trolling for addresses when people email him to tell him he's a crackpot. That he's insane AND knows how to crosspost to the entire world raises a red flag with me.

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: Jimmy Owen on December 01, 2007, 06:17:30 PM

Shouldn't this be in birthdays and obits?  :)

Title: Happy Birthday
Post by: TV Favorites on December 01, 2007, 10:17:41 PM

And to think...today was the day GSN was removed from my cable lineup.  Great BD present for GSN.