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Article #3Re: Memories of USENET and the Years Before The Renaming
From: Ned Danieley
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 20:58
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 20:58
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In article <2mi2f7$3g5@news.duke.edu> you wrote: : 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. I suspect there are more than that. Steve Daniel and Tom Truscott are still around. there are probably some others who were grad students that early; USENET was already fairly extensive (50+) sites when I got to Duke in 1980.
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