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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 37, September 7, 2014, Article 11

ON THE E-SYLUM'S 16TH ANNIVERSARY

From Uruguay Horacio Morero writes:

FELICITACIONES EDITOR DE E-SYLUM !
Felicitaciones en mi nombre y en nombre de todos los que conformamos el Instituto Uruguayo de Numismática.

From New Zealand Jim Duncan writes:

Hard to believe how giant oaks from little acorns grow, but this is living testimony.

From Canada Paul Petch writes:

It was nice to see your top story last week on the anniversary of what has come to be known as The E-Sylum. I did not realize until reading it that in being one of the originals the attached message went out to only 49 people.

Back in 1998 my e-mail address was petch@humberc.on.ca. I spearheaded the project that got Humber College, here in Toronto, on the Internet for September 1990, the start of our school year, so had lots of time to distribute that address. Perhaps I had included it when I renewed my NBS membership.

I have made a practice of archiving e-mails right from those earliest days. As the e-mail computer platform has changed I carefully port all the files forward. I remember being very excited to receive the Sept 4, 1998 message and opened a new folder right away. In scanning that folder, I guess I have all the E-Sylums ever sent. It reveals how much of a personal project it has been for you right from the start. It even originated from your personal e-mail account until December 23, 2001 when the coinlibrary.com domain started to be used.

Thank you for the constant and steady work you have put into the venture over the years. It is an indispensable part of every bibliophile's source of news and a research library in its own right.

A lot of water went under the bridge since then, didn't it? It's nice to know some of the original group is still with us.

When I built the NBS web site I did it on down time at my job to teach myself HTML. It came in handy when the company tapped me to run their first web-building project. The email address I used then was a company one, homren@cgi.com.

The coinlibrary.com address is actually a personal one. I set it up at telerama.com, one of the first ISPs in the world, and I got an account early on to use at home. Today I use gmail over a Verizon FiOS connection. I suppose now I could move to a tablet and work from my couch, but a laptop is still easier for content creation.

Editing The E-Sylum is definitely a chore, but a fun one because of the interesting, constantly-changing content and the great people that are part of our community. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
E-SYLUM ANNIVERSARY: SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n36a02.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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