[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Ole Jacobsen]

I don’t know about “chat rooms” exactly, but mailing lists have been around since the ARPANET days, wine-lovers, sf-lovers, etc, not to mention Usenet news groups. On ANY topic….

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> On 31 Aug 2022, at 15:53, Bob Purvy via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Something you wouldn't think would be a problem:
> 
> I'm planning out my next novel, and I want to have a character haunting the
> chat rooms and forums on investing, around 1995 and on. I don't want to
> quote anything or dox anyone -- I just want to get the tone and format back
> then, as well as the topics they were talking about.
> 
> The Wayback Machine seems to have started at the end of 1996. Does anyone
> have links to earlier archives?
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