The Shelf Now Starts in 1981
The TCP-IP list and the utzoo Usenet archive extend the collection’s operator record back to 1981
The collection’s operator record now reaches back to 1981. We’ve accessioned the TCP-IP list — 39,123 messages, 13 October 1981 through December 1994, from the securitydigest.org archive — along with its digest edition (1981–1983) and the utzoo Usenet tapes, whose unix-wizards traffic begins in June 1981. It is indexed and searchable in the Reading Room alongside the later lists, so the arguments of the ARPANET-to-Internet transition can be read next to the operator communities that inherited them.