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Top: Computers: Usenet: History:

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• - News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
  
• - Archived reviews from news.groups.reviews, a newsgroup carrying reader-written reviews of other newsgroups. Covers 1994-1999.
  
• - Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
  
• - An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.
  
• - Highlighted links of historically significant Usenet posts from Google Groups archive.
  
• - 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 t
  
• - Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period.
  
• - Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com]
  
• - First thread after 11 Sep 2001. First mentioning of Microsoft, announcement of Linux, and many others.
  
• - Covers many historical points of the evolution of Usenet, including "The Great Renaming" and the "explosion" of the Net.
  
• - Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.