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As we continue the lead-up to Bob & DylanRadio’s mutual birthdays, Grandpa Walrus is back with another little story for the kids, and a tip of the hat to my Internet brethren.\u00a0 Back in the ’91 when I first hacked my way onto this thing called the Internet, one of the most popular places to hang out were the Usenet newsgroups.\u00a0 For you young whipper-snappers, newsgroups were kind of like Facebook groups with less “face” and more “group.”<\/p>\n
For Dylan fans, the center of the Internet universe was a group called rec.music.dylan where the finer points of Dylanology were discussed & debated, but the most important fruit of r.m.d, for me anyway, was the documentation of Dylan lyrics in what became known as the \u201cExchange Dylan Lyrics Internet Service\u201d or EDLIS.\u00a0 With FTP and Gopher mirrors worldwide, the EDLIS lyric repositories were a veritable treasure trove for fans like myself.\u00a0 Sleeve-lyrics and lyric-sites are ubiquitous these days, but in those days, it was like finding Aladdin\u2019s cave.\u00a0 I remember obsessing over Desire\u2019s lyrics that I\u2019d gathered from EDLIS FTP sites including updates from r.m.d.\u00a0 I also remember the time I got reprimanded for posting a binary to r.m.d like an idiot-n00b.\u00a0 This binary to be precise!<\/a><\/p>\n All this to say that, were it not for the ground-breakers like EDLIS and r.m.d, sites like DylanRadio could never exist.\u00a0 The most amazing thing about those pioneers is that they endure to this very day!\u00a0 Eduardo Ricardo still maintains the EDLIS.org website<\/a>, and the EDLIS Caf\u00e9 is still the hub of Dylan fandom on Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 You can even still access the rec.music.dylan newsgroup via Google Groups<\/a>\u00a0 Many of the heroes of r.m.d and EDLIS are currently are very active contributors to the ULTIMATE website for Dylan-related news & info, ExpectingRain.com<\/a> (and if you\u2019re not a member there, you\u2019re dead to me now<\/em>).<\/p>\n