Hi Fiona, A couple of suggestions about the potential distribution networks.
CSIRONET provided services to Australian Government Agencies upto the early 1980s, when I was involved in a migration from CSIRONET bureau services to inhouse "mini" computers. I don't recall but expect there may been some form of newsletter - distributed electronically. > CSIRO Computing Services (CSIRONET). Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial > Research Organisation. (1963-1985) http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1480331 Another lead may be the High Temperature Semi-conductors (early 1990s). The Physics/Research community was chattering on a pre Internet Network - perhaps through Usenet Newsgroups. Sadly, my association was only through second hand conversation, but connecting to such a network became my holy grail... > A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for > messages posted from many users in different locations. The term may be > confusing to some, because it is in fact a discussion group.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup Marghanita Fiona Martin wrote: > Dear Linkers, > > I'm doing my annual de-lurk to ask an Australian net history question for the > forthcoming Companion to Australian Media http://www.scholarly.info/media/ > > Bridget Griffin Foley's asked me to write a 1500 entry about online news > media, covering key historical events and shifts � but most of the material I > have collected is about post-1994 web news titles/sites and and news apps. > > I have very little on locally produced, pre-internet and pre-web news > publications or services � and would like to include mention of examples of > both specialist and generalist news sources from this period. > > So my question is - apart from Chips n' Bits magazine and this list, did > anyone host or use any significant pre-1994 Australian based BBS news > services, news groups, listservs or email newsletters? > > I'm looking for titles/services that were groundbreaking not only in > technological terms but had measurable social, political or economic impact. > Any suggestions for people to track down and talk to would also be welcome. > > So far I've I've drawn on Roger Clarke's archive, early Internet Australasia > editions, Goggin et al's Virtual Nation and Petrie's Clever Country, Paul > Budde's 1990 report on value added networks, Trove and Pandora searches � but > I don't doubt I've got a bit of leg work to do here. > > I'm happy to take posts off-list, but let me know if you'd like any > background detail on the entry. > > I'll post the full entry for comment at the end of the month. > > And thanks again to you all for the wealth of comment and debate during the > year! > > cheers, > Fiona > > DR FIONA MARTIN | Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media > Department of Media and Communications | School of Letters Arts and Media > Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > > THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY > Rm 205, Holme Building A09 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 > T +61 2 9036 5098 | F +61 2 9351 5444 | M +61 428 391 122 > E > [email protected]<applewebdata://57C58A5E-AE4F-4726-A895-93A2D893AA28/[email protected]> > W http://sydney.edu.au/ > > CRICOS 00026A > This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use > is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it > and any attachments.Please think of our environment and only print this > e-mail if necessary. > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
