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Usenet over the years rather than Usenet now.

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• 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.

• 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.

• I Remember Usenet

  http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/21/usenet.html
  Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.

• Meow

  http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/gwqt/lore/meow
  An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.

• 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.

• Olduse.net

  http://olduse.net/
  Shows Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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