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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: History of Usenet and statistical info..
Message-ID: <416@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 17:00:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 17:00:48 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 00:35:05 EDT
Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
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Keywords: net stats, history, usenet, volume
Xref: mnetor net.news:2086 net.news.group:3538

For a research paper I am working on, I need to find out the
following:
	o History: How did usenet get started, who started it,
	  which sites were the initial "nodes", reasons for
	  its establishment.

	o Statistical data as far back as possible, preferably
	  broken-down by years for the following
		- Number of nodes
		- Number of newsgroups
		- Volume (Meg/month, Meg/Newsgroup/Month, whatever..)
	  [Rick@Seismo: Are u there ?]

	o Any other important details about usenet, such as political
	  control (if any) exercised by backbones, AT&T, U.S. Government
	  etc.

I would appreciate all other references, contacts, references or copies
of other published or unpublished research into usenet. Prehistoric
news articles from net.news or net.news.group would also be of
great interest.

oz
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