27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
3:54 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
Hello,
My first try on this list. Hope this works. :)
I recall using cow-orker as early as my FIDOnet days (up til 1993).
It seems to go back as far as the late 80's. I just loked around and
found this URL...
Excerpts from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowOrker
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The earliest reference in GoogleGroups is from a signature
file posted to alt.sca on June 27, 1989...
The same author used it in his signature file for posts
to alt.sca through August 11, 1989...
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:06 -0000
From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Subject: RE: cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
> Sent: 26 January 2004 23:31
where did that
start? I'm sure I remember seeing the "cow orker" typo in
usenet postings about ten years ago, but maybe it has a history far
older than that...
I'm sure it's been in common parlance for longer
than this, but my other online home at www.b3ta.com
(currently offline for upgrades) coined the term
'orking' for a picture of an animal that had its nose
too close to the camera lens, and from that the 'new'
term of a cow-orker was born, but from sniffing around
USENET archives it seems it's been around for longer
than the last couple of years :)
cheers