Personal rec.kites Archive

This is my personal archive of posts from the rec.kites USENET newsgroup. rec.kites was where we used to hang out online and talk about kites in the days before we all drifted off onto various different bulletin boards on the World Wide Wasteland.

Most of the messages collected here are ones that I wrote, that wrote about me, or were in reply to a previous message I had written. Some made me laugh, others made me cry. Some are here because they're likely to be useful for other people to refer to on an ongoing basis. But mostly there's here as my own collection of rec.kites nostalgia and a reminder of what were for me, some of the very best days of rec.kites and kite flying cameraderie.

Freestyle

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Posts related to freestyle and trick flying.

Competition

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The series of posts in which the Freestyle Trickout format was devised

Bridle Design

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Posts relating to bridle design

Kite Design

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Posts relating to kite design.

AoxomoxoA

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The spiritual bliss you get from kite flying.

Benson Kites

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Posts relating to Benson Kites

The Demise of rec.kites

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Imminent Death of USENET Predicted - Film at 11!

Flank Kenisky

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Frank Kenisky is the self-appointed "Mr Nasty" of rec.kites

Airfoiled!

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A rant from another random.

Crap ASCII Art [tm]

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Kite related Crap ASCII Art [tm]

USA West Coast Tour 1998

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Meeting up with the locals in Shoreline Park

Miscellaneous

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Various off-topic, funny, silly or strange posts that don't fit anywhere else.