SMBlog — 14 November 2019

14 November 2019

November 2019 is, as greatest I can recall, the fortieth anniversary of the
conception of Usenet. (What’s Usenet? The
Wikipedia article
is okay however not good.)
I ought to have written a correct paper; as an alternative, there’ll (most likely) be
an irregular collection of weblog posts.
I’ll do Half I of N tonight.

Right here is the desk of contents, precise and projected, for this collection.

1. The Early History of Usenet: Prologue
2. The Technological Setting
3. Hardware and Economics
4. File Format
5. Implementation and User Experience
6. Authentication and Norms
7. The Public Announcement
8. Usenet Growth and B-news
9. The Great Renaming
10. Retrospective Thoughts
11. Errata

The tag URL
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/control/tag_index.html#TH_Usenet_history
will all the time take you to an index of all weblog posts on this subject.