November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part I: Prologue (14 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part II: The Technological Setting (14 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part III: Hardware and Economics (15 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part IV: File Format (17 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part V: Implementation and User Experience (21 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part VI: Authentication and Norms (22 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part VII: The Public Announcement (25 November 2019
The Early History of Usenet, Part VIII: Usenet Growth and B-news (30 November 2019

The Early History of Usenet, Part I: Prologue

14 November 2019

November 2019 is, as best I can recall, the 40th anniversary of the conception of Usenet. (What's Usenet? The Wikipedia article is ok but not perfect.) I should have written a proper paper; instead, there will (probably) be an irregular series of blog posts. I'll do Part I of N tonight.

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