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Steve Yelvington wrote at 17:14 on  9 Jun 95:

> > Are there any pages or resources out there on the history of
> > on-line publishing? For example, did the first on-line newspapers
> > "do-it-themselves", with staff hired for the purpose, or did they
> > hand over raw material to existing Internet providers? Who were
> > the first?
> 
> Internet providers? Not in 1980.

Steve provides some interesting insights. If you're looking for 
something footnote-able, try this book: Richard M. Neustadt, "The 
Birth of Electronic Publishing." (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge 
Industry Publications, 1982).

I'll bet it's buried somewhere in every university library in the 
country with a due-date slip that shows no activity for a number of 
years. It is fascinating reading nonetheless. The contemporaneous 
hype surrounding videotex services like Steve describes is quite, 
quite revealing for those trying to evaluate the current status of 
on-line publishing. (Note how we've dropped the word videotex, even 
though it really would still apply.)
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