History of the APIS Newsletter:

In February 1983, APIS-Apicultural Information and Issues evolved from Hum of the Hive, taking on a different format with an upgraded logo. The first electronic issue came out in February 1984 on BITNET. Since then, APIS has been available worldwide as one of the first linked databases on beekeeping via the World Wide Web.  Parts of it have also been archived across the Web and can be found on many different sites. In 1989, the author published issues from Italy, from Egypt in 1992, and a special collection of letters from France in 1997.

In 1994, the story of APIS was featured in the FARNET publication, 51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What it Says About the Information Superhighway, the lobbying document used to educate the U.S. Congress about the value of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). This formally recognized the newsletter as a pioneer on the Internet, the first information organ of its kind available on World Wide Web. The Apis Newsletter continues to be published monthly via this ezine, and includes a monthly summary (gleanings) from the content of each month's Bee Culture magazine.