I guess you could say I got here through an online Peter, Paul and Mary fan club on Prodigy. When Prodigy started charging by the minute, the surviving members of the group moved to a computer board in Maine, operated by Noel "Paul" Stookey of PP&M. I became fairly well acquainted with Noel through that bulletin board, and that was a nice experience. Also got me several concert tickets and backstage passes, and one time I sat right next to Noel in his dressing room while he sang a new song. I didn't like the song very much, but his guitar work was extraordinary and I love his resonant voice.

One of the Prodigy people sent me a copy of the Digital Tradition on floppy disks in about 1992, and Noel had an online copy of the DT and also a link to rec.music.folk. I also discovered alt.music.lyrics, and developed an interest in sleuthing for songs. From there I was led to the Xerox site for the Digital Tradition. I think that disappeared sometime in 1996, and then Max opened up Mudcat as a forum for Digital Tradition requests, submission, and discussion on October 1, 1996 (click). It took me until early January, 1997, to find Mudcat. Been here ever since. Blame it on Peter, Paul and Mary.

-Joe Offer-