The "old Unix" mailing list has been running since October 1995:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/
Cheers, Warren
Telecom digest has been running since 1981.
I don't know if any of the Amateur Press Associations (APAs)
made the leap to digital, but an APA is fundamentally a digest
email list done with a copier/mimeograph/hectograph and the postal
service as the transport layer, and there's at least one act
On 04/21/2017 12:28 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> Multi-user communication systems of a somewhat different architecture
> are even older: "Notes files" on the PLATO system.
AUTODIN and predecessors, such as ComLogNet extend into the 1950s.
--Chuck
> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> From: Bill Gunshannon
>
>> Surely there were Mailing Lists prior to the existence of the Internet,
>> yes?
>
> Absolutely. They started on the ARPANet, fairly early on.
>
> E.g. SF-Lovers (one of the first 'non-mission rela
> From: Bill Gunshannon
> Surely there were Mailing Lists prior to the existence of the Internet,
> yes?
Absolutely. They started on the ARPANet, fairly early on.
E.g. SF-Lovers (one of the first 'non-mission related' mailing lists) started
in September, 1979, and MsgGroup (an 'offic
Oldest mailing lists prolly held by snail mail type groups. That evovled
into the digital age
On Apr 21, 2017 11:40 AM, "Tony Duell via cctalk"
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Thomas Kula via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> > To be fair, while we may have missed the 020th and 20th anniversaries,
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Thomas Kula via cctalk
wrote:
> To be fair, while we may have missed the 020th and 20th anniversaries,
> we're well ahead of the 0x20th anniversary.
>
> So --- what base are we using?
Or what about celebrating 8192 days of the list, which I think
is a little over
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 05:18:03PM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*.
>
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Noel Chiappa via
cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 10:51 AM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Did we miss the 20th anniversary of
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*.
>>
>
> You could argue that years are index starting from zero. Thus the
> 20-year
I am living proof that a good Fortran Programmer can write spaghetti code in
any language.
Fortran by default starts all of its array indices at 1 so I would argue that
we are now in year 21. A C programmer would disagree.
Tim N3QE
Sent from my VAX-11/780
> On Apr 21, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Jay W
> On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
Part of the question I’d have, is do you mean on the Internet the whole time?
I’m on one for photography that started out life on Fidonet, moved to the
In
> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
I don't have access to my _old_ email (i.e. from the 80's) to confirm this,
and I don't think they still have copies of the very oldest mail, but the
IETF list has got
Pontus wrote...
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You could argue that years are index starting from zero. Thus the 20-year
celebration is next year and we have ample time to prepare.
-
That's a hilariously great idea for the rationalization and justification
department *grin*
J
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
>
> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*.
>
You could argue that years are index starting from zero. Thus the
20-year celebration is next year and we have ample time to prepare.
(It's what we
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
And yes, many are here just for the relationships and comradery that has
developed over decades of the lists existence.
But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*.
We could have the party at VCF MW in September. :
Zane wrote...
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I think it's safe to say that a list dedicated to computer history, forgot its
own history.
-
I beg to disagree with the premise. Yes, there are quite a few people here that
focus on the history and historical aspects of the hobby. But that doesn't mean
the list is "dedi
> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Congratulations to us all, even if a little late.
>
> It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
Don't know about *the* oldest, but one that's quite old and still very active
is the TZ mailing list
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Torfinn Ingolfsen via
cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 7:27 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Did we miss the 20th anniversary of
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 01:27:09PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
> wrote:
> > Congratulations to us all, even if a little late.
> >
> > It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
>
> Still running, o
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
wrote:
> Congratulations to us all, even if a little late.
>
> It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
Still running, or still getting on-topic posts to it?
--
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen
Congratulations to us all, even if a little late.
It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
/P
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:09:01PM +, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
> A FAQ in my old emails show the founding of the Classiccmp mailing list as
> being 20 years and 1 mont
wow what?
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > On Apr 20, 2017, at 2:09 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > A FAQ in my old emails show the founding of the Classiccmp mailing list
> as being 20 years and 1 mont
> On Apr 20, 2017, at 2:09 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> A FAQ in my old emails show the founding of the Classiccmp mailing list as
> being 20 years and 1 month ago. March 13 1997 was when Bill Whitson first set
> up the classiccmp list at the University of Washington.
>
> Tim N3QE
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