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[Jon Johnston]

I don't know how long I've been on here.... I never really think about things like that (although if you ask, yes, I remember my anniversary or I'd get killed. it's a self preservation thing). 

I do know that I used to change email addresses a lot because the list generated so much traffic, I'd set up different email systems to test them (back when everyone was putting email systems in), so I've had a whole bunch of different email addresses over the years. 

Things really have changed, pretty amazing. My kids complained the other day that I probably didn't do anything when I was kid but watch college football.... their mother pointed out that we really only got one channel, to which I said "And the only thing on it was Notre Dame or Michigan". Thank God that's changed!!!!

Jon Johnston

On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Lynette Tillner wrote:

> Great posts all! A BIG thank you to Mike for having the foresight to start this! 
> 
> 
> Being exiled in California all these years (since 1972) the list was a huge 
> connection for me and my family to our "team." 
> 
> I remember Mike's streaming text and I remember some of our list members that 
> are no longer with us for one reason or another. 
> 
> 
> Bob, Greg Mays, our "Weatherman", the Loon, our stat's guy - what was his name? 
> Started with a B --- so many others. Some that got "chased" away by arguments, 
> some that just drifted away. 
> 
> 
> Through good times and bad, the list has been consistently there for us. THANK 
> YOU, MIKE! Bless you!
> 
> Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
> ltillner at yahoo.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Scott Lawson <scott71lawson at yahoo.com>
> To: husker at tssi.com; Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net>
> Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 8:53:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Husker List
> 
> Great post, Patrick...I just "read" the ASU game from '96, now I am too angry to 
> sleep! lol
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> --- On Wed, 10/13/10, Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Husker List
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 11:26 PM
> 
> On 10/13/2010 7:35 PM, Theodore Heise wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Mike...I don't know how long I have been on this
>>> list....but I remember living in Western Colorado....not
>>> able to see the games on TV or pick up a radio
>>> broadcast.....You were typing every play as it happened and
>>> we would read play by play..........Years later, a radio
>>> station in Loveland or Longmont....I don't remember which
>>> picked up the rights to broadcast the games.  I was
>>> still too far away and over the mountains so I would drive
>>> to the Eisenhower tunnel and listen to the game from
>>> there......It was about 100 one way ......Now look what we
>>> have.....Progress has really made things possible for us
>>> Husker fans..
>> 
>> I looked back through my e-mail archives and have a similar story, only I was 
>> debating between driving from West Lafayette, IN toward Chicago in hopes of 
>> getting a radio signal versus staying put and getting the textcast.  This was in 
>> 1997, and I opted to take the sure thing (Mike's typing).
>> 
>> Thanks, Mike!
>> 
> 
> I remember the textcasts too.  They were hosted on huskers.com back when it was 
> an *unofficial* website that had no affilation to UNL.  For a long time, the 
> official UNL page for husker football was huskerwebcast.com.  I don't remember 
> what happened, but eventually the guy behind huskers.com gave up on the site and 
> UNL purchased the domain.  Anybody remember that old site?  It had a chatroom 
> (running on some terribly slow java applet).  I thought it was the coolest thing 
> in the world to be able to interact "live" with other Husker fans.
> 
> Out of curiosity, I looked up the site on the web archive and found that most of 
> the 1996 version of the site was archived.  You can even view the textcast page 
> here - 
> http://web.archive.org/web/19961106044700/www.huskers.com/football/play-by-play/ 
> ...It even looks like some of the games were archived!
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