Memories of USENET and the Years Before The Renaming

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From: Joel Furr
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 17:51

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As moderator of comp.society.folklore, I'd really like to see some
correspondence here in the group about the years of USENET before the
renaming.  When all the groups were either net.* or mod.* and the Alt Wars
were not even born.

Mike Grubb, news admin at Duke University, theorized to me the other day
that there's probably only one person still on the net who was posting at
the very beginning -- back when there was only one site on the net (Duke
University) posting to netnews and there was only one group, general.  In
other words, to have been there at the very beginning, you would have to
have been at Duke before the link to UNC was established. 

Anyone out there remember what it was like when netnews was young and
September was just another month on the calendar?

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