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  • The Early History of Usenet

    From Paul W. Schleck@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 3 12:32:09 2023
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    "November 2019 is, as best I can recall, the 40th anniversary of the
    conception of Usenet. (What's Usenet? The Wikipedia article

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

    is ok but not perfect.) I should have written a proper paper; instead,
    there will (probably) be an irregular series of blog posts. I'll do Part
    I of N tonight.

    Here is the table of contents, actual and projected, for this series.

    I. The Early History of Usenet: Prologue
    II. The Technological Setting
    III. Hardware and Economics
    IV. File Format
    V. Implementation and User Experience
    VI. Authentication and Norms
    VII. The Public Announcement
    VIII. Usenet Growth and B-news
    IX. The Great Renaming
    X. Retrospective Thoughts
    XI. Errata"


    https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html

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