I haven't saved all of that junk; in fact I just started saving things in 1995. (More about my Usenet history below.) Right now, you have three classes of posts to choose from:
(One of the posts is a good deal older than that; this thing was posted to alt.horror or some place like that in 90 or 91 or 92, and was then reposted in rec.humor.funny.)
I don't bother saving technical articles or work-related articles. The stuff that's here is either supposed to be funny or interesting. You can tell me if you find that to be so.
Anyway.
This was a class account, for CS 8 -- Introduction to Programming (I was the bb'th student to get an account in that class). The class was taught by Doug Cooper, co-author of Oh, Pascal. Fun class. I got an A+ because I spent all my time that semester in the terminal room, learning about the internet and Usenet and unix and how to get the amulet in hack and post anonymous mail and trojan horses, and everything. But my first fascination was with Usenet: I read just about everything, because back then it was possible to read everything that was posted.
That's how it began; I've been a News addict for 10 years. (Fortunately I'm often able to shake the addiction for months at a time. As I write this, I've probably read less than twenty articles this month.)
In 1986, undergrad cs students at Berkeley were not allowed to post from class accounts; this was not policy, per se, but the admins thought it was simply prudent resource management. Most of the other UCB class machines, like franny and zooey (which I had accounts on later), didn't have pnews installed. But in 1986, I was on zircon; zircon was a machine intended for business account holders (like all of the machines in Berkeley's precious stones cluster), and so they didn't disable pnews all the way: just enough of it was left so that I could post to nearby machines, which would then propagate my post on to the rest of the world.
I posted three times before they stopped me.
My newsgroup of choice? Why net.humor of course. (This was a couple of years before the great renaming; net.humor is now known as rec.humor).
I have little recollection of just what it was I actually posted. Some pun or stupid shaggy dog story or something like that. (You should have seen my line eaters and disclaimers. Why I even used smileys.) Anyway, I got mail from no less a personage than Larry Wall, saying, "Very funny. Now go back to doing your homework" (quoted from memory). That's when the head TA told me not to post anymore.
Later I started having real accounts, such as at Berkeley's Open Computing Facility (OCF); when they kicked me off after I graduated, I borrowed a friend's account for a year. In 1992 I opened an account at Netcom. In 1994 I opened a second account, here at emf. And I've posted, under different names and different aliases, as much as my heart desires.
Which isn't that much, really. Over the years, I've done much more lurking than posting. I was one of the first 100 contributors to rec.humor.funny (Brad didn't want to post my contribution, but did anyway despite his best interests; I doubt it would have been posted today, since Jim is a tougher editor). I was active on net.comics (which then became rec.arts.comics) while Moriarty ruled and we worshipped the Reverend Mom; but then I stopped reading comic books shortly after I graduated from Berkeley in 1990. When I was addicted to the board game Cosmic Encounter, I would sometimes post three articles a day to rec.games.board. I was active very briefly on rec.music.gaffa (the Kate Bush worship group); and I've warlorded a time or two. Now I mostly post to alt.religion.kibology, if anywhere, and I moderate the newsgroup alt.usenet.manifestoes.
Since 1990, I've been sometimes active and sometimes not. I haven't done anything really memorable -- that's why you haven't heard of me; but there you go. I was here then; I'm here now; I plan on being here still.