Bartcop the original liberal blogger has passed away.

[WiseguyUSA]

92. Humble Beginnings

I posted this before in the wrong place... sorry.

Back in the days before even dial-up internet there were online services like Prodigy, AOL, GEnie, Compuserve etc.

Terry was a driver for a vending company, and would drive a giant circle between Tulsa, OK, Ft Smith, AR and Joplin MO (and all tiny spots inbetween) in a small Suburu with all of the seats except for the drivers taken out so that the car could be filled with candy, chips, cigarettes, toys for the claw machine and change from the vending machines.

This car only had an AM radio, so he would spend long hours alone in the car with nothing but AM Talk radio for mental stimulation he would stew all day over Rush, and have no outlet to rebuke the "vulger pigboy" rants spewing from AM "Newstalk Radio"

He first entered the online political forums on Prodigy, which is where many of his "Bartisms" came from (Ditto Monkey, Swear to Koresh etc.) the name "Bartcop" came from his cat "Bart" and his last name (Coppage)

When he moved from Prodigy to dial up internet he moved into usenet groups like alt.politics

Soon thereafter he started a "Newsletter" and later a listserv titled "Rush Limba - Lying Nazi Whore"

When Mark Prekel (did I spell that right?) approached him to do a webpage, I taught him HTML and BartCop.com was born in 1997-ish (?)

You can decide for yourself if he was the "original" or not.