[NTLK] Age of List

[Victor Rehorst]

+1 everything Grant said.  There used to be old list digests from mid 
1999 on newtontalk.net/archive but I couldn't even retrieve most of them 
from the Wayback Machine.  I'm assuming Grant has copies ;)


On 26/03/18 09:51 PM, Grant Hutchinson wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> 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.
>  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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