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Dr. Krech,

	Hi...I am not sure what you are exactly looking for - but
here are some possible sources.

In article <3i7s8a$k2s@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de>,
Hartmut Krech <kr538@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>I would greatly appreciate your information about
>
>* news and discussion groups

alt.culture.usenet
alt.culture.internet
alt.culture.www
alt.folklore.computers
comp.society.folklore
soc.folklore.computers
news.misc
alt.cyberspace
soc.history.science
news.newusers.questions
alt.amateur-comp

>* archive sites and file servers

Usenet history archives:
ftp://weber.ucsd.edu/pub/usenet.hist

http://www.internic.net/infoguide/gopher/about-internet.html

Internet RFC 3
Internet RFC 1000 (available from internic ane elsewhere)
Other RFCs (822, etc?)

mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
ftp://ftp.rtfm.mit.edu/
ftp://ftp.rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/software/part1 in particular

The NetBook "The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net: On
the History and Impact of the Net" by Ronda and Michael Hauben

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/netizens/
http://scrg.cs.tcd.ie/scrg/u/rcwoods/netbook/contents.html (version in Ireland)
gopher://gopher.cic.net:2000/11/e-serials/archive/alphabetic/a/ama\
teur-computerist/netbook
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/netbook
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/netbook

(if all the above fail, try ftp://128.59.129.27/pub/NET-BOOK/)

My papers on History and Culture of the Net

ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/hauben/papers or
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hauben/papers

The Amateur Computerist Newsletter has covered the history and
impact of the Net.

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/acn/index.html
ftp://wuarhive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/
http://wuarhive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/
gopher://gopher.cic.net:2000/11/e-serials/archive/alphabetic/a/ama\
teur-computerist/

>* public databases

Not sure what you mean by this.

There is more info out there - but I am unsure of the
references. Some of the above have further references.

Hope this proves helpful,

-Michael

>
>in the history of science and technology
>accessible on the Internet.
>
>Sincerely yours
>
>Dr Hartmut Krech
>
>Postfach 14 30
>D-27734 Delmenhorst
>Germany
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>Phone / Fax +49-4221-5 38 36
>E-Mail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de
>