I think that was called Arpanet, or something like that.

I don't think computer systems from back then are very relevant to "casual"
usage of recent years, though.

Bill



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"bill allemann" wrote in message
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Did Al Gore invent newsgroups 30 years ago?
Time flies..




I'm gonna have to go look it up now, but I thought usenet was older than
the internet. Atleast older than the internet as we know it. Its an out
growth of the old message relay system of military and university
computers.

Here is one history from
http://www.usenet.com/articles/history_of_usenet.htm

Birth of Usenet
Usenet was born approximately 3 decades ago, in 1979. It all began as a
small communication network between a few universities in the United
States used to trade information, news, and research results. It has grown
from a simple design without an official structure, to a logical network
linking millions of people and computers to over 100,000 different
newsgroups and millions of bytes of articles. What began as two or three
sites on a single network in 1979, expanded to 15 in 1980, to 150 in 1981,
to 400 in 1982, to millions in 2003.

Who Created Usenet
Two Duke University graduate students in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and
Jim Ellis, came up with the idea of hooking computers together to exchange
information with the UNIX community. The first news software, called 'A'
News was built by Steve Bellovin, another Duke student. As the news volume
increased exponentially, the limited functionality of 'A' News was
replaced by a newer version called 'B' News in 1981, developed by Mark
Horton and Matt Glickman. 'B' News was followed by an improved version
naturally called 'C' News in 1987 which was created by Geoff Collyer and
Henry Spencer. Nowadays, there are numerous software packages for news
management. Users can access the newsgroups and their content using a
constantly increasing number of newsreader applications.

Hmmmm..... Basically it looks like Usenet was started in 1979. According
to these they were just University networks to start.


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