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Another place to look is deja.com. They have archives going back to 1981. In some cases you can read the first articles posted to a group, or read about its formation in news.groups. Use the advanced search option to set a date range.
Here's some text about 12hr:
Classic Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... perfect trans-avant-garde memes for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events.
A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net.
An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...