I have some 1992 discussions of URLs, UDIs, and various other things to ietf-...@merit.edu and wais-t...@think.com and various other mailing lists, I'm trying to sort out. Sent a few to Ed Summers.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Weber [mailto:m...@webhistory.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:25 PM > To: Gerald Oskoboiny; Ed Summers; www-talk@w3.org; public- > webhist...@w3.org; Kevin Hughes; J.F. Groff > Subject: Re: www-talk archives: 1992-1995? > > The same directory (http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/) also has www-vrml > and some short runs of a couple of other miscellaneous lists. > My Web history colleague Kevin Hughes has preserved these on webhistory.org > since late '96 or early '97, and the plan is to keep them up both there and > in the > collection of the Internet History Program at the Computer History Museum. > Clearly W3C should have a copy too. > Best, Marc > > Marc Weber | m...@webhistory.org | +1 415 282 6868 > Internet History Program Founding Curator, Computer History Museum > 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 > computerhistory.org/nethistory > Co-founder, Web History Center and Project, webhistory.org > > > On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote: > > > * Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> [2012-11-20 01:36-0500] > >> I imagine this has come up before, but does anyone know if the > >> www-talk discussion list archives between 1992 and 1995 are available? > >> [1] I am specifically looking for a record of the conversation around > >> the initial standardization of the URL, which became RFC 1738 in > >> December 1994. I did look over on the IETF URI discussion list, but > >> that seems to start in December 1994. > > > > There is a copy of the archives from that time period here: > > http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/ > > > > I think it's missing from W3C's archives because the format of > > the mboxes is not understood by our HTML archive software, and we > > haven't managed to make time to look into workarounds. > > > >> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/ > >> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/ > > > > -- > > Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ > > World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ > > tel:+1-604-906-1232 mailto:ger...@w3.org > > > > > >