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Shutup and Deal, I'm Losin'
02-17-2008, 03:26 PM
How long have discussion forums been around and which one do you believe is the oldest one? Corfid is the oldest that I know of. (It started in 1999.) Most of the other ones I visit were started in 2003, and another I visit was started in 2005.
charlene
02-17-2008, 04:54 PM
alt.music.lightfoot - first post was August 12, 1995..
then Jan. 1996 things took off...
Suck it up, I'm winning
02-19-2008, 01:26 PM
alt.music.lightfoot - first post was August 12, 1995..
then Jan. 1996 things took off...
I first saw GL in concert one week before that, August 5, 1995.
-Patti
Shutup and Deal, I'm Losin'
02-19-2008, 06:38 PM
alt.music.lightfoot - first post was August 12, 1995..
then Jan. 1996 things took off...

I didn't know the 1st discussion board ever was a Lightfoot board! :biggrin:
Jesse Joe
02-20-2008, 09:03 AM
alt.music.lightfoot - first post was August 12, 1995..
then Jan. 1996 things took off...


In 1995 no computer for me yet, and every year I would always ask EMP for the concert list. One particular response that I received from the office one year was, there's this Fifer person who has lots of info on everything Lightfoot on the Internet. :eek: :rolleyes: The times they were a changing. :)
Patti
02-20-2008, 10:20 AM
alt.music.lightfoot - first post was August 12, 1995..
then Jan. 1996 things took off...

No computer for me until 2001. Just trying to learn to use one at a community college. Never saw anyone's concert schedule until the past three years. Wonder wha's up with the Fifer person.
Jesse Joe
02-20-2008, 12:52 PM
Sir John Fowles probably knows ? :rolleyes:
Doug
02-20-2008, 02:36 PM
there's this Fifer person who has lots of info on everything Lightfoot on the Internet. :eek: :rolleyes: The times they were a changing. :)

Last I heard Matt was in Texas, but that was awhile ago. The below link from the Way Back Machine gives you an idea of what it was like on the information Super Highway 10 years (that's not possible) ago:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981203103756/smith.mmlc.nwu.edu/~mfifer/lightfoot/

It was simple and well done for those of us starving for info on Lightfoot. Knowing we were the only true fan on the face of the earth.... Man those were great times!!
Jesse Joe
02-20-2008, 03:29 PM
Hey thanks a lot Doug, I did click on that link and saw the concert list for 1998, among other things.

Matthew Fifer yes indeed !