I stumbled on this 1994 FidoNews, 14 mar 1004, 11/11 it's kinda hilariously amateurish. I really liked Sylvia, she was a great editor but you can imagine the old white guy crowd wasn't induced to write.
FidoNews came out weekly, for over 20 years, had a large readership, in the dialup BBS days. I don't think many not-for-profit newsletters had that duration.
They are not rare; there's archives all over. I think.
It's pure ASCII formatted text file, raw, not html, and firefox renders it great.
@tomjennings this is so incredible tom, so so important to remember where we came from and that this internet culture we live in here has been being continually created and figured out one little step at a time. was just thinking about how the @fediversereport should look to this as its direct ancestor
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