A short review about our history

After some sporadic activity in January, 1997, the #Hebreos Chat room was officially born on the Undernet IRC network on February 14, 1997.
Quickly, though, word on the street spread about #Hebreos and our membership grew exponentially; we were the "talk of the town," known for the quality and depth of our discussions. Soon we expanded from just this chat room into our e-mail listservs and a Web site: "#Hebreos en Internet". Hebreos matured, from a few friends in an online chat, to a full-fledged virtual community, and then blossomed into the real community, with a virtual counterpart, that it remains today.

August 17, 1997 - First "real life" meeting

In the beginning -- to quote the opening lines of the Old Testament; although our founding is not of biblical proportions! -- the mailing list began with about 15 members, almost all of them from Buenos Aires. On August 17, 1997, we held our first "real life" meeting (Mesiba), in La Plata, Argentina.

April 1, 1999 - HebreosNet

On April 1st, 1999, we changed our name from "#Hebreos en Internet" to "HebreosNet", in order to fully reflect the breadth of our community, online and off.

Today - Thousands in the world connected by Hebreos.Net

Today, we have over 5,000 members (January 2004), including Jews living in Argentina, Israel, Canada, the United States, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, Bolivia, Brazil, and other countries. We have also held "Mesibot" in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Israel, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela and Spain.