Whelp, I've lost my mental thread of #DynDNSHistory, so I just did some browsing on the wayback machine...
Apparently back in 2000 we ran an NNTP server for tech support. That's pretty funny to think about these days, I feel like that must have really been on the very tail end of NNTP's relevance...
It amazes me how effective saying "hey, don't forget, we depend on your donations to keep running" was back then. It doesn't feel as effective anymore.