Sorry for nonoperational content, but this struck me as a good place to post this query. ----- Forwarded message from Fred Hapgood <hapgood@pobox.com> ----- From: Fred Hapgood <hapgood@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:18:33 -0500 To: nsg-d@marshome.org Subject: [NSG-d] Historian is trolling for memories about the early days of SF and ARPANet. Anybody? X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Reply-To: Nanotechnology Study Group - open discussion <nsg-d@marshome.org> ----- Original message ----- From: "Christopher Leslie" <[1]cleslie@poly.edu> To: [2]hapgood@pobox.com Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:47:39 -0500 Subject: sf-lovers Dear Mr. Hapgood: Damien Broderick suggested that I contact you for a project I am working on. I have become intrigued by a connection between science fiction and the early days of the ARPAnet. As you may know, one of the first group distribution lists that was not directly related to defense research was the mailing list SF-lovers, which was created in Sept. 1979 at MIT by Richard Brodie. When Usenet became available, a connection was established, and the travails of the list after that point are fairly well documented by Saul Jaffe and others. Before the Usenet list, however, there is not so much information. I've been in contact with some researchers about this, but I am hoping that someone on the list might also remember the days of the sf-lovers list before Usenet. I've also heard that there were mailing groups on local computers and BBSs (bulletin board systems) before there were widely dispersed e-mail list, which if they were discussing science fiction, I would love to learn about. If you have any information to share, or can direct me to someone who does, I would greatly appreciate it. I am writing a book on science fiction and I think this list demonstrates an interesting synergy between science fiction and engineering. Chris Leslie Christopher S. Leslie, Ph.D. Instructor of Media and Technology Studies Polytechnic Institute of New York University 6 MetroTech Center, RH 213h Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 260-3130 References 1. mailto:cleslie@poly.edu 2. mailto:hapgood@pobox.com http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com http://www.pobox.com/~fhapgood ** The following attachments were removed: multipart/alternative text/html _______________________________________ Nanotechnology Study Group NSG-d open discussion group http://www.marshome.org/mailman/listinfo/nsg-d Send replies (no attachments) to: NSG-d___no-spam@marshome.org Questions for list admin: NSG-d-owner___no-spam@marshome.org Archive: http://MarsHome.org/mailman/private/NSG-d Unsubscribe: NSG-d-unsubscribe@marshome.org Password or Options or Unsubscribe: http://MarsHome.org/mailman/options/NSG-d Hosted by CyberTeams.com and Mars Foundation(tm), http://MarsHome.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE