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Mailing Lists -- Listserv History
The first Listserv was conceived of by Ira Fuchs from BITNET and Dan Oberst from EDUCOM (later EDUCAUSE), and implemented by Ricky Hernandez also of EDUCOM, in order to support research mailing lists on the BITNET academic research network. This first version was put into operation and hosted many lists, but was eclipsed in 1986 by the new version developed by Eric Thomas from CERN, originally called Revised Listserv. Listserv was originally developed on IBM mainframes, and still retains some of the record oriented, batch job look and feel of that computer environment. However, it was later ported to run on Unix, IBM VMS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and MPE. By the year 2000, Listserv ran on computers around the world managing more than 50 thousand lists, with more than 30 million subscribers, delivering more than 20 million messages a day over the Internet. References:
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