@Mezz 544010 wrote:

That news clipping is 5 years old, he died in 2008 ; )

Interesting though, I never bothered to fund out who invented it back in the days I used it ( though it was pre-interent when I used it so finding out not as easy as clicking a button ),

the Internet existed since the 70s and by the early 90s and was used for exchanging drug info such as this, but it wasn’t that easy to get hold of tolerated like it is today.

I got in a shit ton of trouble in University for doing just that (around 1992) (basically made to leave uni for bringing the institution into disrepute and very nearly arrested for hacking/computer misuse).

it was somewhat more amusing how I got the info to my mates as I had to print it out on them old skool dot matrix printers, and we’d have to read it in paper form which seems almost prehistoric, but that was seen as a big fuck up in my life by my parents (as was getting into drugs in the first place) and basically cost me several years of family conflict including the last years of my late fathers life (as he was then terminally ill). Of course it didn’t really harm me permanently in the long term but its experiences like this which are why I never take todays freedom of expression for granted.