When was SAS communities launched?

[Andygray]

Hi @art297  Fair enough. Now, I believe you 🙂  Thank you!

[Tom]

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@art297 wrote:

@Andygray: A little more digging indicated that they were using BITNET (i.e., Because It's There NET, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET). Email, via BITNET, was available as early as 1981.

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I know informal SAS discussion was active on BITNET as early as 1983 since I used it send message from CUNYVM to YALEVM.  

LISTSERV didn't start until 1986 and I would not be surprised if SAS-L wasn't one of the first listserv mailing lists.

[novinosrin]

I wouldn't be surprised the search algorithm for the communities was perhaps miller's paigerank algorithm approved by the pope to our CEO. :)

[AllanBowe]

In case anyone is interested, my last SGF talk had an overview of the various SAS communities / support channels through the years:

• 1971 - SAS Support
• 1976 - SAS User Groups
• 1986 - SAS-L
• 2006 - SAS Communities
• 2007 - SASCommunity.org
• 2008 - Linkedin, Twitter, Stackoverflow
• 2009 - Reddit
• 2010 - Quora & Github
• 2011 - Facebook
• 2017 - Sasensei

See:  https://slides.com/allanbowe/find-your-sas-sensei