• 40th anniversary of the conception of Usenet

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=c3=89LIE?=@iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid to news.misc,news.admin.hierarchies,news.software.nntp on Sun Nov 24 08:53:11 2019
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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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    Julien |eLIE

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