February 1 is the tenth anniversary of the aus.sport.rugby-league newsgroup, the first newsgroup on Usenet to specialise in the discussion of the sport of rugby league. I know this because I was its creator :-)

The RFD for aus.sport.rugby-league and discussion which led to its creation on 1 February 1995 can be found on Google Groups (and no I don't endorse Google's attempts to privatise Usenet). The old question of why I created aus.sport.rugby-league instead of putting it into the rec.* heirarchy is explained there. rec.sport.rugby.league was created about six months later.

In the days when the world wide web was still one of the less-used internet applications, and home internet accounts were almost unheard of, the creation of asrl marks, in my opinion, quite a milestone in the social history of the rugby league supporter.

Having said that, I'll try and get back in and write there more often!