The Early History of Usenet

[Paul W. Schleck]

"November 2019 is, as best I can recall, the 40th anniversary of the
conception of Usenet. (What's Usenet? The Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

is ok but not perfect.) I should have written a proper paper; instead,
there will (probably) be an irregular series of blog posts. I'll do Part
I of N tonight.

Here is the table of contents, actual and projected, for this series.

I. The Early History of Usenet: Prologue
II. The Technological Setting
III. Hardware and Economics
IV. File Format
V. Implementation and User Experience
VI. Authentication and Norms
VII. The Public Announcement
VIII. Usenet Growth and B-news
IX. The Great Renaming
X. Retrospective Thoughts
XI. Errata"


https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html