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linguistlist.org>Dear Subscribers, This year's Fund Drive coordinator, and the grad students who are helping him, thought that "the founding of LINGUIST" might make a good topic for a fund drive letter this year. I wouldn't have thought of this as a topic since it all seems so recent to me that I imagine all of you as having been involved in it with us from the start. But I realize that many current LL subscribers weren't on email in 1990, so--just in case you're interested-- here's how LINGUIST began. LINGUIST began in 1990, when Anthony, my husband and co-moderator, was lecturing at the University of Western Australia in Perth, and I was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Troms� in northern Norway. Both universities offered their professors free access to a new facility called the Internet; and, as Anthony and I rapidly discovered, academics in Troms� could send email messages to Australia via the Internet and get a reply back in 4 minutes. (Indeed, we tested this function so often that I sometimes found myself referring to our commuter marriage as our "computer" marriage.) Already, in 1990, it was clear that the Internet could allow academics to participate in rapid interchange and cooperative work of a kind that would not have been possible in the days of "snail-mail." However, at that time, it was not easy to find other linguists' email addresses, much less general discussions of topics related to language. One of the first email lists for academics was the HUMANIST list. So Anthony circulated a message on HUMANIST offering to set up a linguistics list if he received indications of interest. The response was mixed. Two people replied that linguists were such a diverse and contentious lot that they probably wouldn't want to talk to one another. Others told him that he didn't know what he was getting into: that setting up a list was not a trivial job and he should probably report that nobody was interested and back out while he could. But Norval Smith sent him his list of linguists' email addresses; and, encouraged by the response from these linguists, Anthony convinced the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia to provide one-year's support for the first email list ever set up in Australia. I agreed to co-edit by telnetting to the Australian machine from my home university in Texas. So, in December 1990, LINGUIST sent out its first issue to our original 69 subscribers. Our goal was a cozy group of perhaps 200 subscribers. We doubted that we would get many more, since it wasn't yet clear that we were filling a need in the field. In fact, I was worried that we wouldn't have enough material to fill an issue, so I urged friends to post their inflammatory opinions about Native American language classification, just so we could start a discussion. But within six weeks, subscriptions had risen to over 600, and I recall reporting to the 1991 LSA in awed tones, "We're up to 1200 subscribers and still growing at the rate of 100 subscribers a month." In that talk, only 13 years ago, I also felt I had to spend ten minutes explaining what the Internet was. I had no inkling that the Internet would soon become a major information resource for linguists all over the world, or that LINGUIST would become the electronic hub it is today. As you probably know, the LINGUIST List has now grown to over 18,900 subscribers in 108 different countries; and we have added numerous adjunct facilities like one-click search of 109 other linguistics- oriented email lists, "Ask A Linguist," "Noticeboard," the OLAC search engine for language resources on the Internet, classification of all our resources by linguistic subfield and subject language, and much more (read the other Fund Drive letters!) All of this now requires 20 student editors to maintain. And that is why, once again, we are coming to you with a request to donate to Fund Drive 2004. -Helen Helen Aristar-Dry Prof. of Linguistics Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48103 hdryMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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