Thanks, Jeremy, for correcting me. The first AoIR wasn't in 2001, it was in the fall of 2000. Cheers, Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan On 2018/02/16 0:38, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
I was slightly before 2000 as I think my first email message was in 1999, and we organized the conference for 2000, which is why the conference number was always off by 1 year, because we counted conference in 2000 as 1.0 thus 2001's conference was 2.0 and apparently people found that to be too irritating to sustain after 16 in 15.
The founding story is found the proceedings of AoIR's first few conferences. and It goes back to a conference at Drake University by Thom Swiss and colleagues. Many of the founders were there.
AIR-l was founded after that conference. the https://web.archive.org/web/19991012214940/http://aoir.org:80/ is the famous bumblebee page with some of this information on it also.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010204100100/http://aoir.org:80/ is the first organizational AoIR page, designed by Charlie.
as you'll see air-l was always there:) However, we don't have permanent archives on archive.org <http://archive.org> until we migrated to mailman, steve ran it on his office computer with listserv and i ran it at the cddc on mailman.