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20 years of Usenet

  • 02-02-2002 2:58pm
    #1
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭


    Not entirely sure where to put this, but Monty will move it if he has a problem.

    Google has archived Usenet and it's searchable. They compiled a small list of 'first mentions' and other things here, which I found really interesting. Kinda makes me want to have been there, but it started before I was even born so...:)

    Just as an aside - one thread has a poll on 'the future of usenet' and another has a poll on 'biggest spammer', 'biggest fool', etc etc - back when usenet was still small. Seems scarily like what goes on here on the boards....Will the boards eventually have hundreds of thousands of posters and an uncountable no. of forums? Or has that been Cloud's plan from the start? ;)


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  • #2
    Dustaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    very interesting:)

    Its funny how the decline in it is pretty obvious. by the time of the WTC attacks there are very few posts. As an example, an american VB board i was browsing at the time garnered about 100 posts in the first 5 minutes after the initial attack.


  • #3
    smiles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    Wow! First mention of IRC:
    From: Todd Ferguson (melvin@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU)
    Subject: Re: multiparty, real-time, lightweight sequenced communications
    Newsgroups: comp.sources.d, comp.protocols.tcp-ip
    View: Complete Thread (3 articles) | Original Format
    Date: 1989-02-09 21:40:57 PST


    In article <8879@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
    >What's the state of the art in real-time chat programs connected
    >across an internet? The goal is something like 'party' only over
    >multiple systems. I've heard of 'phone' but don't have any more
    >pointers than that, & there must be others.

    I have recently got ahold of a program called irc (Internet Relay Chat)
    Each machine runs its own server and the servers are link in a tree fashion
    to a master server. I've only messed with it a little, but it appears
    to be a good program. I got it through anonymous ftp to 128.214.5.6
    (tolsun.oulu.fi) and have asked the author about release to the USENET.
    We currently have a small network of 5 machines, 2 at OSU and 3 at DU,
    with orion.cair.du.edu as the master server. If you get this program,
    you should try connecting to this network.

    Hope this helps.
    Todd Ferguson
    UUCP: {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!jacobs.cs.orst.edu!melvin
    INTERNET: melvin@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU

    LONG TIME AGO!!!!

    ;P

    << Fio >>


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