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quoted 6 lines Today is Brian Behlendorf's birthday, and in honor of this I'm going

> > Today is Brian Behlendorf's birthday, and in honor of this I'm going > to say many words about this wonderful person. Of course, you could > say I'm biased since he's my boyfriend, but if you look at the facts > of what he has accomplished you'll want to run up to him and give him > birthday hugs too.

Happy birthday Brian!!!!! *HUGZ* out to ya for the ftp/gopher site!

quoted 8 lines The net-rave scene as we know it was started by Brian. He started

> > The net-rave scene as we know it was started by Brian. He started > raving in LA when acid house and Baby Ford were king. When he moved > to Berkeley for college, he found out about the Internet and started > reading newsgroups, including alt.rave. He then got the brilliant idea > to start a mailing list for ravers in the San Francisco area, and > sfraves was born in early March, 1992. >

NOTE: I'm not trying to add spittle on the b-day cake! Exactly WHO did start alt.rave? You say Brian "found out" about alt.rave. I may have been on the net, but not very active in Usenet, so I missed the CALL FOR VOTES or whatever was required to get alt.rave started. I'm curious of net-rave history. What events took place to get alt.rave and the net-scene started? And I agree, the rave email lists *are* a briliant idea. But I hardly ever see any Texas raves posted on SERAVES! :(

quoted 6 lines One day Brian noticed a strange telnet process running on a computer he

> One day Brian noticed a strange telnet process running on a computer he > was logged into. He telnetted to the same port and discovered the Unix CB. > He got ahold of the code and with Craig Kanarick's help turned it into > vrave which has done more to bring far-flug ravers together than anyone can > imagine. >

What I don't understand is why people prefer CB over IRC?

quoted 2 lines Articles in magazines, without knowing it, make passing references to

> Articles in magazines, without knowing it, make passing references to > Brian's achievements with great frequency.

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quoted 4 lines The same article also noted that "talk about techno and raving on the

> The same article also noted that "talk about techno and raving on the > Internet runs high," which is due in part to Brian's inspiration that > prompted the formation of all the raving mailing lists. >

Due to his GREAT part in creating a structure for the net-rave culture! Has there been any DIRECT references to Brian as a coordinator of the net- rave scene in any magazine?

quoted 7 lines If that wasn't enough Brian set up the ftp/gopher/www site at for

> If that wasn't enough Brian set up the ftp/gopher/www site at for > raving at techno.stanford.edu, and the experienced he gained from that > got him a job managing the ftp/gopher/www site for Wired Magazine. He's > gotten many positive compliments for his work on both sites, and is > helping to set the standard for good and interesting web sites in the > on-line publishing world. >

Wow, does he get paid?!!!!??? As a candidate for a Bachelor's in Computer Science, I feel like I know little compared to the competition out there! But if there's people paying for easy online maintenance jobs out there, I need one! Or several! :)

quoted 2 lines Happy Birthday to Brian!!!

> Happy Birthday to Brian!!! >

Ditto.

quoted 2 lines We love him!!!

> We love him!!! >

Speak for yourself! .) -DJKC

quoted 3 lines Exactly WHO did start alt.rave? You say Brian "found out" about alt.rave.

> Exactly WHO did start alt.rave? You say Brian "found out" about alt.rave. > I may have been on the net, but not very active in Usenet, so I missed the > CALL FOR VOTES or whatever was required to get alt.rave started. I'm curious

Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then someone in the UK created it anyway. Brian was around before the creation, and I'm fairly certain he saw it bantered around on alt.config. Lazlo Nibble also had some part in the ensuing discussion, although I can't remember if he was pro or con. Signed, Geezer ObIDM: It took Mixmaster Morris for me to realize just how great the new Biosphere is.

Pete "Gramps" Ashdown sez:

quoted 5 lines Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then

> Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then > someone in the UK created it anyway. Brian was around before the creation, > and I'm fairly certain he saw it bantered around on alt.config. Lazlo Nibble > also had some part in the ensuing discussion, although I can't remember if he > was pro or con.

Yeah, I think I remember some discussion in rec.music.industrial about it. alt.config was stereotypically anal and shot it down, someone newgrouped it anyway, and then it went on to be very successful just like most other non-joke groups that alt.config didn't like but got newgrouped anyway. :-) -Howard "Thank goodness for Becker :-)" Berkey -- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Howard Berkey howard@netcom.com "Police are investigating whether a freshly severed goats head placed in the center of a pentagram in a San Jose park is linked to a satanic ritual." -- SF Examiner "Duh!" -- me

quoted 5 lines Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then

> Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then > someone in the UK created it anyway. Brian was around before the creation, > and I'm fairly certain he saw it bantered around on alt.config. Lazlo Nibble > also had some part in the ensuing discussion, although I can't remember if he > was pro or con.

That's okay because I can't remember myself -- though at that time I probably would have been against. I've changed my outlook on newsgroup creation pretty radically since then . . . -- Lazlo (lazlo@unm.edu)