How long has the QRD been around?
The QRD started in 1991 as an electronic archive for Queer Nation. Ron Buckmire created the QRD after realizing that a more extensive resource than just an archive for QN would be useful for the queer Internet community. The oldest files in the QRD date from about February 1991, though the QRD did not really exist in its current form until around September 1991, when the QN archive was transformed into the broader Queer Resources Directory.