Charles Ingrao created HABSBURG in the fall of 1991 as the first
Internet history list. In April, 1994, he began his partnership with
James Niessen, and they brought HABSBURG into H-Net shortly thereafter.
Hugo Lane joined the team at the beginning of 1997, Franz Adlgasser in
2000, Jim Brown in 2004, and Heather Morrison, Joseph Patrouch, and John
Swanson in 2008. In mid-1998 listserv operations moved from Purdue
University to the H-Net server at Michigan State. Former HABSBURG editors
include Gary Shanafelt, Mills Kelly, and Cathleen Giustino.