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243 Listings - DR (10/10)243 Listings - DR (10/10) USENET Software: History and Sources - http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/software/part1.html
A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences. A useful historical summary, particularly in terms of the software used for usenet.
780 Listings - DR (10/10)780 Listings - DR (10/10) The Geeks Who Saved Usenet - http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index.html
Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com]
179 Listings - DR (9/10)179 Listings - DR (9/10) Google Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline - http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
Notice that Google has completed integrating 20 years of Usenet posts into its archive. Includes links to notable posts including the first ever post to Usenet and the original announcement of GNU/Linux.
877 Listings - DR (8/10)877 Listings - DR (8/10) Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-29-ellis-usenet.htm
News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
54 Listings - DR (6/10)54 Listings - DR (6/10) I Remember Usenet - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/21/usenet.html
Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.
686 Listings - DR (6/10)686 Listings - DR (6/10) Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
Links to Michael and Ronda Hauben's on-line book. Presents the history and impact of various aspects of the Net, such as the Internet, ARPANET, and Usenet. Attempts to help readers understand the origins of the Net, so they might help preserve its value throughout future developments and changes.
354 Listings - DR (6/10)354 Listings - DR (6/10) Interview with Brad Templeton - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-3/templeton.html
Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) SOUP: Simple Offline USENET Packet - http://combee.techwood.org/old/soup12.html
Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Gopher.quux.org : Usenet A News - gopher://gopher.quux.org/1/Archives/usenet-a-news
Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purposes.
8 Listings - DR (5/10)8 Listings - DR (5/10) The Big Eight Newsgroup Creation Process - http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html
Documents the ancient process to create, rename, remove, or change the moderation status of newsgroups in the Big Eight hierarchies. Currently, the management is done by the Big-8.org team. Written by Russ Allbery
207 Listings - DR (4/10)207 Listings - DR (4/10) Meow - http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/meow.html
An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) The Great Renaming, 1985-1988 - http://www.uncommon-sense.net/interests/usenet/renaming-faq/
Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period.
7,463 Listings - DR (2/10)7,463 Listings - DR (2/10) Great Renaming from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renaming
What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.

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