[NTLK] Age of List

[Dan]

On 3/26/2018 9:51 PM, Grant Hutchinson wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Noah Leon wrote:
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>> This may be a question for Grant or Victor: how old is the Newtontalk list if you include the years that it was Newtontalk.com? Is there an archive of messages pre-2001 or so? I would be curious to see what people were discussing in the 90s.
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> From the bits of information I've been able to piece together over the years, the original list dad, Sean O’Shaughnessy started the list in August 1997. The archives from that 1997-1998 period were stored in a FileMaker database, which Sean no longer has a copy of.
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> The earlier archives I have are the list digests circa 1999.
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> Let me know if you want to take a peek at those.
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> I've put some of these details in the NewtonTalk FAQ document, but be aware that it's still a work in progress.
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> <https://github.com/splorp/newtontalk-faq/blob/master/newtontalk-faq.md#newtontalk-history>
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> g.

I was on the list back then,and if I remember correctly, Grant is right: Sean O'Shaughnessy.  I tend to keep most of my list emails.  I should still have them on another HD (I am a bit of a digital pack rat).  I will look around.

-Dan