Congratulations old bean.
When I first started BBSing, I used to keep a written log, mostly to check in case I ever wondered about a phone number on my bill. I can't find those papers, so I don't have a firm anniversary date. The Cellar went from dial-up, through a brief Telnet period where I dropped out due to frustration with some technical glitches, and to the WWW presence. I'd love to know my original sign on date, but it's lost to history.
I did find an old capture dump from the Cellar. I clipped out one of TW's posts (yes he has always been that long winded) and removed his name. The only thing that's changed in almost 20 years is that he's probably figured out how to spell embarrassed and pregnancies.
Quote:
Post: 2772 of 2780
Subject: Upcoming Censorship
From: tw (**name redacted*****)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:45:14 EST
in response to 2771 - It is all part of the same thread - Americans fear
anything sexual. That includes a naked body, the word penis, and talk of
AIDs. Yes we still have people going around blaming AIDs on homosexuals. Why?
They can't talk about the realities in the world - sex. If you can't say
Penis, you can't talk about prevneting AIDS. In essense, I have connected
Cindi, the mother of the 15 year old, with people who have encouraged the
spread of AIDs. They all refuse to deal with sex. Teach a kid what a breast
is suppose to do? Not my kid. If I teach him about sex, he will go out and
rape the neighbors daughter. This is they type on thinking that prevails when
each generation is taught that sex is taboo and then demands those same
teachings on the next generation. Anyone embaressed by a naked body should
consider themselves also contributing to the spread of AIDs. And anyone who
gets upset when Howard Stern says Penis is also part of the problem.
Why is it the the worlds most religious and Puritanical (in the western
world) society also has the most (no one else comes close) unwed mothers and
teen age pregenecies. It reminds we of the daughter of a Presbyterian
minister I know. As soon as they got out of the house (and all the strict
teachings) they became the most wild and got into all sorts of trouble.
Penis is not a four letter word.
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