News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
Links to Michael and Ronda Hauben's on-line book. Presents the history and impact of various aspect...
What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.
Documents the ancient process to create, rename, remove, or change the moderation status of newsgro...
Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purpo...
A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Comput...
An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large ...
Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.