[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Bob Purvy]

When I first joined Packeteer in 1998, Usenet accounted for an overwhelming
percentage of the Internet traffic.

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 2:08 PM Greg Skinner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> On Jul 20, 2021, at 3:45 PM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
> > The Usenet had no central point of control, and was contemporaneous with
> > the ARPANET and early Internet.  Its software was even rewritten several
> > times by different parties (e.g. A News, B News, C News, Notesfiles,
> > NNTP).  Its global discussion groups (net.foo) were evolved by mutual
> > agreement (comp.foo, sci.bar, etc) and then later successfully forked
> > (alt) when the primary sites feared hosting discussions that others
> > wanted to have (e.g. on sex and drugs).
> >
> > Does anybody know the status of the Usenet today?  I got off it
> > years ago.
>
> BTW, it’s available via Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/>.  Some
> newsgroups go back to the early 1980s.
>
> —gregbo
>
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