On Jan 12, 1:08 am, Rik Brown <Rik.Brown.566...@no-
mx.forums.travel.com> wrote:
> Are you the Jim Breen of 'Jim Breen's Japanese Page'
> (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html) fame?

Something like that.

> If so, I just want to say thank you for all you have done over the years
> (decades) for those of us studying Japanese. I don't know how many times
> I've accessed your page.

It is decades. I think my first sci.lang.japan posting was in 1989,
and good
old JDIC (DOS, 640k) first aired in 1990 with a dictionary of a few
thousand
entries.

Usenet and mailing lists were a life-changing occurrence. It's hard to
recall
just how constricted communications and interaction were before then.
Things
have moved on since then, but they were real paradigm shifts.

Jim