History - Musharof Chy
Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies
News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
Links to Michael and Ronda Hauben's on-line book. Presents the history and impact of various aspect...
Great Renaming from Wikipedia
What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.
The Big Eight Newsgroup Creation Process
Documents the ancient process to create, rename, remove, or change the moderation status of newsgro...
Gopher.quux.org : Usenet A News
Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purpo...
USENET Software: History and Sources
A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Comput...
Meow
An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large ...
Olduse.net
Shows Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago.
I Remember Usenet
Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.