This is becoming a fascinating conversation and I'm just butting in to mention the e-zine fineArt forum which is an online historical resource that I know many of you will know about but some may not. Founded by Ray Lauzzana in 1987 as a bulletin board and email newsletter it became a Gopher in 1992 (sadly all lost I think) and moved to the web in 1994. The most complete archive is held by the National Library of Australia here: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/11009 … and the Computer Arts Society (CAS) are hoping to include a more substantial archive in their historical section that is currently being developed. Also - I've not followed all the posts as I'm currently on the road) but has anyone talked about Carl Leoffler's ArtCom which was on the Well from the 1980's (it certainly pre-dates fineArt forum). And also - on the fax front there the work of Art Reseaux (Karen O'Rourke) which is later but, for me at least, very interesting. OK! Butting out Paul ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK April to October 2013 http://www.paul-brown.com == http://www.brown-and-son.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====