[WEB4LIB] Re: "Talking About Public Access: PACS-L's First De

[Roy Tennant]

Both Thomas and Bill are right, and for those who haven't yet had their
fill of the beginnings of Web4Lib, there is a "history" section in the
article I wrote on Web4Lib in Ariadne a while back:

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/web4lib/

Roy

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> >
> > PACS-L is the first list I subscribed to way back in 1989.  The
> discussions
> > there helped shape my career and served as an inspiration to me.  That
> list
> > was also where the idea of WEB4Lib originated in a discussion between
> Roy
> > Tennant, myself and others about needed a place focused on the then new
> > World Wide Web.
> >
> 
> Which, lest we forget, was modelled after the very successful Go4Lib list
> out of UC-Santa Barbara, just as my own Libweb was humbly modelled after
> Steve Watkins' Library Gopher Servers list on the UC-Santa Cruz InfoSlug
> gopher.
> 
> Thomas ("Plus ca change") Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
> 
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