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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:25:38 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Jon Marshall <jmarshal@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: conference question
In-Reply-To: Suzanne Johnson <johnson@rahul.net> "CYHIST: PDP 8's" (Dec 4,
11:41am)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
This is probably a naive historical question, but i recently attended a formal 'real world' conference organised by a mailing list (Cybermind), that had people presenting papers and crossing the seas to get to it. It also had sponsers etc...
Several people suggested that this might be the first time such a formal conference had grown out of a mailing list, and no one was able to contradict them.
The question is 'is this the case'?
People knew about the famous 'hackers conferences' of course, but considered they were more 'professional' or 'interest group' conferences not directly arising out of the activities of a mailing list, but similar in a way to the academic conferences on 'cyberspace' which have been held- perhaps involving people on the internet, but not involving a particular group whose existence emerges out of the net.
Personally i think this conference is unlikely to be the first such, but i don't know of any others- which dosn't actually suprise me.
I suspect that people on the cybermind list would appreciate knowing if this was the case, and i would like to forward any replies to them.
thanks for any comments.
jon
the web pages for the conference are still up at:
http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/cybermind/
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From: Jon Marshall <jmarshal@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: conference question
In-Reply-To: Suzanne Johnson <johnson@rahul.net> "CYHIST: PDP 8's" (Dec 4,
11:41am)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
This is probably a naive historical question, but i recently attended a formal 'real world' conference organised by a mailing list (Cybermind), that had people presenting papers and crossing the seas to get to it. It also had sponsers etc...
Several people suggested that this might be the first time such a formal conference had grown out of a mailing list, and no one was able to contradict them.
The question is 'is this the case'?
People knew about the famous 'hackers conferences' of course, but considered they were more 'professional' or 'interest group' conferences not directly arising out of the activities of a mailing list, but similar in a way to the academic conferences on 'cyberspace' which have been held- perhaps involving people on the internet, but not involving a particular group whose existence emerges out of the net.
Personally i think this conference is unlikely to be the first such, but i don't know of any others- which dosn't actually suprise me.
I suspect that people on the cybermind list would appreciate knowing if this was the case, and i would like to forward any replies to them.
thanks for any comments.
jon
the web pages for the conference are still up at:
http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/cybermind/
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