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Bob Kaplow
09-08-2009, 10:46 PM
Today 9/9/09 is the 20th anniversary of the starting of rec.models.rockets, the grandfather of internet rocket forums.

Here's the email Mike Jungclas sent me 20 years ago that started it all:

http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~kaplow_r/rmr.cfd
jflis
09-09-2009, 07:00 AM
Oh man, I actually remember when rmr started up... what a hoot!

Before that we had the rocketry NOTES files within DEC. good stuff!
cas2047
09-09-2009, 07:39 AM
Here's the email Mike Jungclas sent me 20 years ago that started it all:


Bob - I can't even find emails that came in last week and you can put your hands on one that came in 20 years ago! My hat is off to you. :)
GregGleason
09-09-2009, 09:31 AM
Thanks Bob for the historical note. It probably should be displayed in the Digital Rocketry Hall of Fame.

Greg
Ltvscout
09-10-2009, 03:37 PM
Today 9/9/09 is the 20th anniversary of the starting of rec.models.rockets, the grandfather of internet rocket forums.

Here's the email Mike Jungclas sent me 20 years ago that started it all:

http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~kaplow_r/rmr.cfd
It's also our 20th wedding anniversary. :D

I still have my copy of Mike's classic kit guide I bought off of him in '98. That was/is a great resource.
Sirius Rocketry
09-15-2009, 10:00 PM
It's also our 20th wedding anniversary. :D

I still have my copy of Mike's classic kit guide I bought off of him in '98. That was/is a great resource.

Was Compuserve Modelnet not around at this time as well? Or shortly thereafter? The Conpuserve Modelnet Forum, moderated by Doug Pratt, was something that in the 1200-baud days was the premier forum for those of us that paid 25 bucks a month for 5 hours of compuserve/thenlater internet access. I am wondering when that forum was started as well. I seem to recall I was on that one well before RMR, but I could be mistaken.