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This list is more than four years old!

I began it in 1992 as part of my academic interests in collecting, organizing, and presenting information describing the Internet and computer-mediated communication. This information includes resources and studies about technologies, applications, culture, discussion forums, and bibliographies. I'm interested in how people communicate online.

I've gathered this information because I'm working on a PhD dealing with CMC and the use of the Internet. I'm sharing this information because I feel it belongs to the network community, for free, because that is where and how I got it. If my effort is worth something to you, I'm glad. Just cite me or acknowledge my work and preserve my copyright statement.

In preparing this list, I first developed an ASCII file version, internet-cmc. However, I have recognized the need for this information to be more amenable for entry into other information systems, so I developed a file tagged with identifier information (internet-cmc.dat) and a software program to translate this .dat file into an HTML format.

At one time I maintained a separate text version of this list; since I've reformated the HTML version so that it can be printed or saved as text, I no longer maintain these other versions.


REVISION HISTORY
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1.00 23 May 92 242
1.20 04 Jun 92 279
1.40 29 Jun 92 272
1.50 01 Aug 92 319
1.60 01 Sep 92 353
1.70 20 Oct 92 368
1.80 01 Dec 92 384
1.81 05 Dec 92 391

1.90 11 Jan 93 411
2.00 19 Jan 93 435
2.10 01 Feb 93 462
2.20 13 Feb 93 486
2.30 15 Mar 93 513
2.40 04 Apr 93 539
2.50 10 May 93 570
2.60 03 Jul 93 633
2.70 26 Jul 93 694
2.90 28 Aug 93 551 .dat file
2.98 02 Oct 93 594
3.00 03 Nov 93 696
3.10 17 Nov 93 733
3.14 01 Dec 93 790
3.15 15 Dec 93 848

3.20 22 Jan 94 960
3.25 11 Feb 94 989
3.29 05 Mar 94 1160
3.30 11 Mar 94 1201
3.35 09 Apr 94 1431
3.39 06 May 94 1584
3.54 11 Jul 94 2029 -- major re-organization; segmented hypertext version
3.61 20 Aug 94 2074 -- consolidation/stale link cleanout
3.66 18 Sep 94 2114
3.72 14 Oct 94 2123 -- more weeding out stale links
3.78 09 Dec 94 2220 -- beginning the move toward linking to collections

3.82 26 Jan 95 2217 -- cut out many companies and put in links to collections
3.95 15 May 95 2268 -- after MOMspider review
3.99 01 Sep 95 2188 -- more consolidation

4.00 12 Jul 96 2084 -- more link weeding and consolidation; sponsored
4.01 15 Jul 96 1866 -- much link weeding and consolidation;

23 Dec 1997
john@december.com
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/history-icmc.html
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