Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Bill Gunshannon
> 
>> Surely there were Mailing Lists prior to the existence of the Internet,
>> yes?
> 
> Absolutely. They started on the ARPANet, fairly early on.
> 
> E.g. SF-Lovers (one of the first 'non-mission related' mailing lists) started
> in September, 1979, and MsgGroup (an 'official-busines-related' one)
> considerably earlier, in June 1975. Header-People started at about the same
> time, but alas, we have lost the first two volumes of the archives, so I don't
> know exactly when.

Multi-user communication systems of a somewhat different architecture are even older: "Notes files" on the PLATO system.

	paul