The Computational Chemistry List is a mailing list, portal, and community which brings together people interested in computational chemistry, mostly practitioners. It was formed in 1991 and continues to exist as a vibrant discussion space, highly valued by its members, and serving both its original and new functions. Its duration has been unusual for online communities. We analyze some of its characteristics, the reasons for its duration, value, and resilience, the ways it embodies and preceded the affordances of online communities recognized elsewhere long after its foundations, and project some aspects into the future. We also highlight its value as a corpus for historians of science.

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“我们在网络之前被炒作……”：简短的历史并向计算化学列表致敬。

计算化学列表是一个邮件列表，门户网站和社区，汇集了对计算化学感兴趣的人员，其中大多数是从业人员。它成立于1991年，并一直是一个充满活力的讨论空间，受到其成员的高度评价，并同时发挥其原有功能和新功能。它的持续时间对于在线社区来说是不寻常的。我们分析了它的某些特征，其持续时间，价值和弹性的原因，其体现并早于其基础很早就获得其他地方认可的在线社区的能力的方式，并预测了未来的某些方面。我们还强调了它作为科学史学家的语料库的价值。