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Mailing lists that predate the World Wide Web!
[edit] Active lists by year founded
- September 1979: SF-Lovers - science fiction (on hold)
- August 1985 : RISKS-L - computer risks
- 1989 : NetHappenings - originally Internet news, now mainly just education news
- 1989 : Home-ed - homeschooling
- June 1989 : PACS-L - library computer systems
- October 1989 : Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - a band
- November 1990: Bread-Bakers - baking bread
- December 1990 : ACQNET-L - acquisition librarians
- 1991 : VMs-list - Voynich Manuscript
- 1991 : Dead Runners Society - running
- 1991 : BOSOX - Red Sox
- 1991 : PCBUILD - computer hardware
- 1991 : conlang - constructed languages
- June 1991 : ecto - ectophilic music
[edit] Old lists of mailing lists
- ARPANET SIGLIST1, SIGLIST 2...6 - missing files, which had descriptions of active mailing lists from roughly 1984-1988
- BITLIST #49 - a list of active mailing lists in 1986
- NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT - a list of active mailing lists in 1989
- LISTSERV.LISTS - A list of active mailing lists in 22 December 1992
[edit] More stuff
- Agora - an e-mail nomic from 1993
- Keith Lynch's net history
- usenet.hist - Usenet history
- msggroup archives - the oldest network-distributed text still available on the Internet
- Zipped copies from Online Book Initiative