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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: netnews map as of April 15 (more or less)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 12:46:47 EST
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From Mark Plotnick (allegra!mp):

> Every once in awhile I like to pull out old usenet maps and compare
> them with the giant web we have now.  Here's one from almost exactly 4
> years ago.  I'm not sure how old the net was at this point, but I think
> it was at least 6 months.  ucbvax!mark is the pre-columbian (or is it
> columbusian?) Mark Horton.
> 
Believe it or not, USENET was already a year old at the time.  The first
public announcement was at the January, 1980, USENIX meeting; at the time,
there was already a third site (phs) that had joined the original two (duke
and unc).  The original idea was conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis
of Duke; Tom and I did the original test implementations (which were never
released, especially my moby shell script version), and Steve Daniel and Tom
produced the first version of A news.


		--Steve Bellovin