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Usenet Oldnews Archive Includes all Usenet news from May 1981 to May 1982 (oldest known Usenet news). http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html Meow An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks. http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/meow.html Interview with Brad Templeton Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-3/templeton.html Usenet History Covers many historical points of the evolution of Usenet, including "The Great Renaming" and the "explosion" of the Net. http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/ The Geeks Who Saved Usenet Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com] http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index .html Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-29-ellis-usenet.ht m The Great Renaming, 1985-1988 Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period. http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename/ |
