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Ah, those halcyon days gone by, the fondness of nostalgia and the sweet smell of things past.

Way, way back, in the days before everyone had an e-mail address, before URLs appeared on adverts or cars or soap packets, before narrowband was unheard of, Laz's Big Fat QBasic page hit the net. In fact, you can still see it.

A lot came out of this. Understanding of HTML, of mailing lists, of a global communications network. As a shrine to this dawn, here are assembled various aspects of "the old days"...

Complete set of Laz's Big Fat Qbasic Mailing List archive
N.B. Currently unavailable - partly by mistake, but now partly until I grep all the e-mail addresses and make them less spam-harvestable...
I hope to add a search box for these when I get the time. I'm sure I've been saying that for about 7 years now...

Archive of "hidden" messages at end of mailing lists
Not sure if there's a more complete version of this lying about somewhere or not. Ah well.