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12 sites in History

Computersthe Factory Stores Save
Computers Buy your Plasma tv at the Factory Stores.
www.TheFactoryProgramme.org.uk (sponsored link)
 
Google Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline Save
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/ar...   
Great Renaming from Wikipedia Save
What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Re...   
Interview with Brad Templeton Save
Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-3...   
I Remember Usenet Save
Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/netwo...   
Meow Save
An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.
http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/meow.html   
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet Save
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 throughout future developments and changes.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/   
SOUP: Simple Offline USENET Packet Save
Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
http://combee.techwood.org/old/soup12...   
The Geeks Who Saved Usenet Save
Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com]
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/featu...   
The Great Renaming, 1985-1988 Save
Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period.
http://www.uncommon-sense.net/interes...   
Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies Save
News item about the death, in 2001, of Jim Ellis, who helped create Usenet.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/200...   
USENET Software: History and Sources Save
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://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/...   
See also
Computers: Internet: History (11 104)

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