John wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:

First of all, it's Usenet, not UseNet or USENET.

no it ain't
it is usenet

unix lower case freaks back then because they could be.



That could be true. Ken and Dennis had a Western Electric ASR37 teletype as
the "console" of the PDP-7 (I think it was) on which they developed the
first version of the UNIX Operating System. Since their ASR37 had a "stunt
box," they could type in lower case if they wanted to.

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