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Hi all,
Steven Bellovin, co-inventor of Usenet is currently blogging about the
early history and design decision of Usenet.
Worth reading!
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html
In part V "Implementation and User Experience", we hear about the implementation of "the very first version of Netnews software as a
Bourne Shell script. It was about 150 lines long, but implemented such features as multiple newsgroups and cross-posting."
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