List of mailing lists from before 1992

From Everything Shii Knows, the only reliable source

This website is an archive. It ran from 2006-2010. Virtually everything on here is outdated or inaccurate.

Mailing lists that predate the World Wide Web!

Active lists by year founded

September 1979: SF-Lovers - science fiction (on hold)
August 1985 : RISKS-L - computer risks
1985 : anthro-l - Anthropology
1986 : ARCH-L - Archaeology
1986 : ANSAXNET - Anglo-Saxon history
May 1987 : Humanist - Humanities
March 1989 : MLA-L - music libraries
1989 : BELIEF-L - beliefs
1989 : BISEXU-L - what it says on the tin
1989 : NetHappenings - originally Internet news, now mainly just education news
1989 : Home-ed - homeschooling
June 1989 : PACS-L - library computer systems
October 1989 : Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - a band
January 1990 : TEI-L - Text Encoding Initiative
February 1990 : Feline-L - cat fanciers
Early 1990 : Elfinkind Digest - elves [1]
Early 1990 : C18-L - 18th century
July 1990 : SHAKSPER - Shakespeare
October 1990 : ExLibris - rare books
November 1990: Bread-Bakers - baking bread
December 1990 : ACQNET-L - acquisition librarians
December 1990 : LINGUIST - linguistics
May 1991 : Celtic-L - Celtic culture
1991 : AUSTEN-L - Jane Austen
1991 : MEDTEXTL - Medieval texts
1991 : SEELANGS - Slavic and Eastern European languages
1991 : VMs-list - Voynich Manuscript
1991 : Dead Runners Society - running
1991 : BOSOX - Red Sox
1991 : PCBUILD - computer hardware
1991 : conlang - constructed languages
1991 : WWP-L - Pre-Victorian women's literature
June 1991 : ecto - ectophilic music
July 1991 : CANINE-L - dog fanciers
August 1991 : Milton-L - John Milton
September 1991 : BUDDHA-L - Buddhism

Old lists of mailing lists

For my recently expanded NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS archives visit http://shii.org/history/
BITLIST #49 - a list of active mailing lists in 1986
LISTSERV.LISTS - A list of active mailing lists in 22 December 1992
- LISTSERV.LIST - the same, mid-1992

More stuff

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/doc/
Agora - an e-mail nomic from 1993
The Natural Life Cycle Of Mailing Lists
Keith Lynch's net history
usenet.hist - Usenet history
msggroup archives - the oldest network-distributed text still available on the Internet
- Zipped copies from Online Book Initiative

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