[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[John Levine]

It appears that Greg Skinner via Internet-history <gregskinner0 at icloud.com> said:
>I’m surprised, given how popular the web had become by then.  How was this determined?

I'm not sure I believe it, but the amount of traffix in alt.binaries.whatever was and is very large.
There's a lot of encoded video.

>> On Jul 25, 2021, at 2:16 PM, Bob Purvy <bpurvy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
><mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 20, 2021, at 3:45 PM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com <mailto: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/ <https://groups.google.com/>>.  Some newsgroups go back
>to the early 1980s.
>> 
>> —gregbo
>> 
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