I mean, I remember, in 1994, being on those systems. But it meant nothing. Anybody could be. There wasn't even a glimmer of interestingness about it. It was like "ls"'ing around an anonymous FTP server.
Sure, it was basically "a poster on the wall" for the US Air Force, and the US Army guy on Usenet shared nothing about his actual Ballistics Research Labs experiments, but for a college freshman kid, I'd never been on a way k00ler bboard, doodz!!1