Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Bruce R Koball <bkoball () well com>
> Date: May 19, 2010 8:26:26 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups

> > A Piece of Internet History
> > Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups
> > By Cara Bonnett
> > Monday, May 17, 2010
> > Durham, NC -- This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its 
> > start at Duke more than 30 years ago.
> > On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network 
> > of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
> > Working with a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, they came up with a simple program to exchange messages and 
> > files between computers at Duke and UNC using telephone modems.
>
> http://news.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html



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