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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8111117" data-attributes="member: 82106">I was 'around'. I first played D&amp;D around Dayton, Ohio in the mid-70's, and then in Central Texas in the late 70's, and then in NW Vermont until pretty recently. I don't recall it from the OLD OLD days, so I could have most likely heard it in Vermont in the 1980's. And for those who can remember, there WAS Usenet, often via FIDONET BBS back in the late 80's. I bet archives DO exist somewhere, but they are unlikely to be complete, and BBS/Usenet was not super common, so its hard to say that something would be there if it existed.OTOH the argument that it would be hard for it to be missing between say 1998 and 2011 when it first appears on the 'net, is a decent argument. I don't really have an answer for that, except perhaps that there really are still a lot of people, who play D&amp;D no less (some are my friends) who are utterly not online...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8111117, member: 82106"] I was 'around'. I first played D&D around Dayton, Ohio in the mid-70's, and then in Central Texas in the late 70's, and then in NW Vermont until pretty recently. I don't recall it from the OLD OLD days, so I could have most likely heard it in Vermont in the 1980's. And for those who can remember, there WAS Usenet, often via FIDONET BBS back in the late 80's. I bet archives DO exist somewhere, but they are unlikely to be complete, and BBS/Usenet was not super common, so its hard to say that something would be there if it existed. OTOH the argument that it would be hard for it to be missing between say 1998 and 2011 when it first appears on the 'net, is a decent argument. I don't really have an answer for that, except perhaps that there really are still a lot of people, who play D&D no less (some are my friends) who are utterly not online... [/QUOTE]

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