| The Great Renaming, 1985-1988 - Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period.
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| Netizens Netbook - Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
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| Interview with Brad Templeton - Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
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| The Geeks Who Saved Usenet - Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com]
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| Usenet History - Covers many historical points of the evolution of Usenet, including "The Great Renaming" and the "explosion" of the Net.
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| I Remember Usenet - Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.
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| USENET Software: History and Sources - 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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| 20 Year Archive on Google Groups - Highlighted links of historically significant Usenet posts from Google Groups archive.
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| Ellis, Jim - USA Today's tribute to the creator of Usenet, who died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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| The Old news.groups.reviews Home Page - Archived reviews from news.groups.reviews, a newsgroup carrying reader-written reviews of other newsgroups. Covers 1994-1999.
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| Old Usenet Articles - First thread after 11 Sep 2001. First mentioning of Microsoft, announcement of Linux, and many others.
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| SOUP: Simple Offline USENET Packet - Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
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| Meow - An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.
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