Subject: Re: History question! From: acg@well.com (Adam C. Gross) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:17:56 -0800

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>Adam Gaffin, formerly of the Middlesex News, claims that the News was the
>first
>general circulation commercial newspaper to create an Internet-based service
>in 1993. There probably are examples of college papers going online before
>Middlesex.

In the late 80's some students at Carnegie Mellon created an email based
wire service for college newspapers.  If you search the archives of various
college papers from that peroid, you can probably find a few that carry the
wire service's name (which escapes me now..)  The main problem, and the
reason the service eventually withered, was that it was so hard to get
people email access - even at universities.  (I guess the newspaper types
didn't have a taste for UNIX.)

Adam




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