Early noise www ?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

What was the first exposure in noise in early days of internet?
I was just reading Akitsa interview, where he mentions doing some noise trading in MSBR's forum. I remember that, and most of all... Noiseweb? Quite primitive list of links and... reviews? There was chatroom done by mr. Stimbox, what was very first times I had online discussions with various people. This was all in late 90's.

Due being time before most people had connections at home, it was all very limited hours in library or other such place. Perhaps never going to receive the glorified status of paper catalogues etc, especially that I would assume none of early sites are documented anywhere?

[Goat93]

I remember

Krachcom - German Board with some Compilations. I can't log in since Years and the Main Admins changed over the Time. Not sure if its dead. But in the Beginning it was useful and Funny. It was connected to Eternal Soul and LWhite was really present there.
Iron Flame - Nice done Info Site and Link Site
Nonpop - Info Site and Board, mostly about Neofolk, but also about other Stuff. Changed a Lot over the Years. Abbandoned the Board Section several Years ago.
Several (AOL) Chat Rooms

Since the Noise Scene where a Part of Goth Scene in Germany, it was quiet easy to get into it. Mostly the People already knew the Stuff. Was no big Deal if soemone was in DI6/C93 and in Whitehouse, Merzbow and TG at the same Time like into Das Ich, Lacrimosa and Laibach

[Steve]

Probably 1998, all noise groups and forums I belonged to were on Yahoo ....

[collapsedhole]

first exposure to noise in general,as well as earliest contacts. 1999.....

alt.noise
rec.music.industrial
malignant records tumor list
noiseboard433

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ah, of course the lists... postmortem list. Whitehouse list. Cold Meat list...

[murderous_vision]

I am still in contact with several friends I met on noise web in late 90's...

[ANDROPHILIA]

napster and first myspace were a nice place to learn

[THE RITA HN]

I remember my very first online lists / emails, etc. for ordering HN were all via Self Abuse.

[Zeno Marx]

malignant records tumor list

+1.  regret being so belligerent with Easter.  he genuinely irritated me, but I was out of control.

[tiny_tove]

well well well.
for sure noiseweb, staalplaat's vital newsletter and iron flame and a few others.
for several year I had been running my own newsletter that got me in contact with many of today's friends

[post-morten]

I was following the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.industrial from 1991. Around 94-95 discussions about japnoise became more frequent, with extremely informed participants such as Mason Jones (Charnel House), Brian Duguid (EST magazine), Roy K. Felps (Körperswache, Monotremata label), Ares Solis (Eskathos magazine), Dan Kletter (Flying Esophagus label), and many more I can't recall now. Some of which I kept in touch with for years. Then as was mentioned the alt.noise newsgroup existed in parallell but it never became as useful as r.m.i. in my opinion, partly because many Usenet admins wouldn't have their servers carrying the cesspool of alt.* groups

There around the mid-90's the mailing lists started to pop up too... cold meat, world serpent, malignant, etc.

[collapsedhole]

oh yeah the CMI list was an active one but really the tumorlist was most useful in my earliest exposure to noise... self abuse advertised on there and browsing the SAR catalog was eye opening. malignant also sold a lot of power electronics like slogun - see those eyes lathe 7" box and taint - daughter: victimology 2 - the edition with bloody panties... and when a lot of the PC pussies raised a stink about the first Control CD artwork that led me to research the project thus finding out about Troniks... and finding out about Troniks was how i found out about current noise activities - not just the buying the older well knowns.

[wyngarde]

MSBR board was the first for me. Lots of fun. People got genuinely excited about ANY new release.

I spent a lot of time on boards run by folks from Redwood CA - anyone remember the Cult of W.O.N?

[Jaakko V.]

I wonder if some of those websites could be found via some web-archive tools? Around '96-'98 I had a website with unofficial websites for some industrial bands before they had their own sites. Also had informative pages like "list of bands' email addresses"... I remember some bigger names emailing me and asking me to include their email addresses on the page, haha.

[Bloated Slutbag]

My chronology is something like...

rec.music.industrial
alt.noise*
cmi-list
difficult-l (hosted by Mr Anal Sadist)
various lists incl the malignant tumor

and then assorted web sites, chatrooms, etc etc.

Archives of the cmi-list can still be found, but I can't seem to find even the teeniest snippet of difficult-l.

Most of alt.noise still comes up, even my first online "harsh noise" review

*What I like most about alt.noise is that it is the only sound forum I know of (possibly the only in existence), which was not set up exclusively by fans/perv-veyors for fans/perv-veyors. It was just kind of claimed by the noise community, as such. At its peak, which may have extended a good few years, legitimate discussion may have actually outweighed the random porn/spam posts.