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From: Mike Easter on 21 May 2010 05:11 Sysyphus' Sister wrote: > http://chris.pirillo.com/duke-pulls-the-plug-on-usenet/ That is an article about an article. The article it is about is on Tom's Hardware^1. The article on Tom's Hardware was from the article at a duke site http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html A Piece of Internet History - Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups Personally, I like the article on the Duke site the best, and if you are into videos, which I'm not, you can watch an interview with Tom Truscott who is one of the two Duke grad students who started the Duke server in '79. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Duke-University-Usenet-Server-Newsgroups,news-6847.html Duke University Shutting Down Usenet Server -- Mike Easter
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 21 May 2010 06:03 On 5/20/2010 19:04, Sysyphus' Sister wrote: > http://chris.pirillo.com/duke-pulls-the-plug-on-usenet/ > > Its been fun....all these years. > > Fare Thee Well each and every one of you. Be optimistic! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 18:03:01 up 2 days 21:14 2 users load average: 1.12 1.13 1.09 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: »Q« on 21 May 2010 09:45 In <news:85n12jFa13U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote: > The article on Tom's Hardware was from the article at a duke site > http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html A Piece of Internet > History - Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic > newsgroups > > Personally, I like the article on the Duke site the best, and if you > are into videos, which I'm not, you can watch an interview with Tom > Truscott who is one of the two Duke grad students who started the > Duke server in '79. The Duke article doesn't mention the name of the UNC student who actually wrote the software. It was Steve Bellovin. Bellovin and Truscott are still around, but Jim Ellis died in 2001.
From: Mike Easter on 21 May 2010 10:59
�Q� wrote: > Mike Easter >> Personally, I like the article on the Duke site the best, and if you >> are into videos, which I'm not, you can watch an interview with Tom >> Truscott who is one of the two Duke grad students who started the >> Duke server in '79. > > The Duke article doesn't mention the name of the UNC student who > actually wrote the software. It was Steve Bellovin. Bellovin and > Truscott are still around, but Jim Ellis died in 2001. > theregister.co.uk article has a link to the history of the usenet which describes the roles of Steve Bellovin and Stephen Daniel and Truscott/Ellis, and Duke has an article with a pic of S. Daniel. The old history article sez... <q> Usenet News was born in 1979 when Tom Truscott, and Jim Ellis, graduate students at Duke University and Steve Bellovin, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina conceived of creating a network to link the computers at their different schools together. Using homemade auto dial modems and the unix to unix copy program (called UUCP), that was being distributed with the UNIX operating system, version 7, Steve Bellovin, one of the students, wrote some simple shell script programs in Unix to have the computers call each other up and search for changes in the files and then copy the changes. The program was very slow, however, and so the students enlisted Stephen Daniel, also a graduate student at Duke, to rewrite the program code in the C programming language. Other people at Duke and the University of North Carolina took part in getting the network debugged. </q> ....and the current Duke article with an old pic of S. Daniel is here http://news.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html Graduate student Stephen Daniel wrote the A News software that first ran the Usenet newsgroups. -- Mike Easter |