Possibly the earliest record of me on the Interweb thingy

It was on Fri July 2nd, 1993 - a "request for discussion" (RFD) for rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic, which is (was?) the formal way to request a new official usenet group. You could always start an alt.* group whenever you felt like it, but the official groups were more likely to be carried on usenet servers and their content had greater legitimacy than that on your average alt.* newsgroup.

You'll notice my old university email address aufflick@ecr.mu.oz.au and remember, this was before the first graphical web browser (that was late 1993 if I remember correctly) and the main way of using the net back then (aside from email) was telnet, ftp, usenet and gopher (plus the occasional talk/ytalk and nethack session ;)

Ah, memories :) I can distinctly remember how excited I was when the engineering lab installed Sun IPX workstations that had floppy drives, so I could download Apple software and updates from bric-a-brac.apple.com (their main ftp server back then) and take them home on a floppy... Update: The oldest actual content of mine comes a few months later in September 2nd 1993, with this post to comp.sys.mac.system where I reply to someone asking a question about the ohh-so-new System 7, pointing them to a utility called PowerSwitcher. One of the good things about PowerSwitcher, apparently, was that it only used about 2k of memory. Not even viruses are that small these days!