[Air-l] First Web Page

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Wed Mar 2 11:46:05 PST 2005


yes, I think usenet is probably the canonical faq origination.
On Mar 2, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Holly Kruse wrote:

> Quoting jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>:
>
>> no, because FAQ's were found on gopher too, and there were
>> some back in
>> the bbs era too, you can find evidence of faq's on
>> textfiles.com
>
> Usenet was filled with FAQs.  Newsgroup FAQs were, and presumably are, 
> posted
> to the groups on a regular basis and available on news.answers (or 
> something like
> that.)  I wrote one that is now widely available on the WWW, but it 
> initially was
> Usenet-only.
>
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