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Mailing lists that predate the World Wide Web!
Active lists by year founded
- September 1979: SF-Lovers - science fiction (on hold)
- August 1985 : RISKS-L - computer risks
- 1985 : anthro-l - Anthropology
- 1986 : ANSAXNET - Anglo-Saxon history
- May 1987 : Humanist - Humanities
- 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
- January 1990 : TEI-L - Text Encoding Initiative
- February 1990 : Feline-L - cat fanciers
- Early 1990 : C18-L - 18th century
- July 1990 : SHAKSPER - Shakespeare
- October 1990 : ExLibris - rare books
- November 1990: Bread-Bakers - baking bread
- December 1990 : ACQNET-L - acquisition librarians
- December 1990 : LINGUIST - linguistics
- May 1991 : Celtic-L - Celtic culture
- 1991 : MEDTEXTL - Medieval texts
- 1991 : SEELANGS - Slavic and Eastern European languages
- 1991 : VMs-list - Voynich Manuscript
- 1991 : Dead Runners Society - running
- 1991 : BOSOX - Red Sox
- 1991 : PCBUILD - computer hardware
- 1991 : conlang - constructed languages
- 1991 : WWP-L - Pre-Victorian women's literature
- June 1991 : ecto - ectophilic music
- July 1991 : CANINE-L - dog fanciers
- August 1991 : Milton-L - John Milton
Old lists of mailing lists
- Internet List-of-Lists (originally SIGLIST/SIGLIST1) - descriptions of active mailing lists from roughly 1980-1996
- 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
- LISTSERV.LIST - the same, mid-1992
More stuff
- Agora - an e-mail nomic from 1993
- The Natural Life Cycle Of Mailing Lists
- 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