[ih] virtual communities

[Ronda Hauben]

Hi larry

For some of the history of Usenet, see:

    See Part II THE EVOLUTION OF USENET: THE POOR MAN'S ARPANET

                     http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x02

                                        and
               ON THE EARLY DAYS OF USENET:
           THE ROOTS OF THE COOPERATIVE ONLINE CULTURE
            http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x10


These are chapters in the book "Netizens: On the History and Impact of
Usenet and the Internet'
by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, put onlne in 1994 and published in a
print edition by
IEEE Computer Society in 1997.

The url for the online version is http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120

cheers

Ronda


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:

>  Dave CROCKER wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Brian Dear wrote:
>>
>>> • 1985: Virtual communities
>>> Way way inaccurate, and again, probably copied from The Guardian's piece
>>> which also pushed this myth.  The WELL (which I have been a member of since
>>> 1986) was a relative latecomer to the world of online communities if you
>>> compare it to PLATO, which in 1973 had notesfiles (message forums), chat
>>> rooms, and instant messaging.  The WELL wouldn't exist for another dozen
>>> years.
>>>
>>
>>
>> net-based mailing lists were active by around 74 or 75, initially for
>> discussion about email.  it was immediately clear that each list created a
>> community of interest.
>>
>
> When did USENET arise?  I'm pretty sure it was UUCP-based (not IP-based)
> when I first heard of it in the WELL days, but I don't know the dates.
>
> --
>



-- 
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook
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