Two digital channels became the site for women´s sociality on USENET: net.women and net.women.only. Together they tell a story of gendered contest and elaborated digital norms in the 1980s. Through subscribers to net.women considered these topics from a gender perspective, the forum was testing ground for selective sociality on the Net, free speech, supportive infrastructure, intimacy, exclusion, and new affinities. At the height of "cultural feminism" when political feminism had already peeked, these users where nostalgically remediating Consiousness Raising Groups of women´s solidarity activities associated with radical and political Second Wave Feminism. This article takes up a newly available USENET archive to complicate feminist digital historiography, which frequently draws a direct line from the 1970s offline to the 1990s online (to the start of the Third Wave), and to argue that these forums strategically looked backwards while moving into new media spaces.

• Schlagwörter
  Gender, Feminismus, Internet, Geschichte 1983-1986