Web Directory

» Google Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline
   Notice that Google has completed integrating 20 years of Usenet posts into its archive. Includes links to notable posts including the first ever post to Usenet and the original announcement of GNU/Linux.
   http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

» Gopher.quux.org : Usenet A News
   Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purposes.
   gopher://gopher.quux.org/1/Archives/usenet-a-news

» Great Renaming from Wikipedia
   What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renaming

» I Remember Usenet
   Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.
   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/21/usenet.html

» Interview with Brad Templeton
   Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
   http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-3/templeton.html

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

» Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
   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 t
   http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

» SOUP: Simple Offline USENET Packet
   Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
   http://combee.techwood.org/old/soup12.html

» The Big Eight Newsgroup Creation Process
   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
   http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html

» The Geeks Who Saved Usenet
   Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com]
   http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index.html

» 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.
   http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/software/part1.html

» Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies
   News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
   http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-29-ellis-usenet.htm