Re: 5th Anniversary alt.ascii-art (1)
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 9 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On 31 Aug 1998 18:28:44 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
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|The Early Years
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|The first time anything like Usenet was ever used was during the
|price and wage controls of the early 70's. It was a way for the
|government to make sure all the controls were uniform. However, it
|would not be until the late 70's that Usenet was actually born.
|Usenet was created in late 1979as the Unix User Network when Duke
|University graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, decided to
|connect computers together in order for the Unix community to
|communicate. The first two sites were "unc" and "duke," commputers
|another graduate student Steve Bollovin had installed his news
|software on. From this point word spread and Usenet began to grow
|quickly.
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|At some point, Net.Legend Brian Reid, a member of the Cabal, decided
|he didn't like how things were going. So he, John Gilmore and Gordon
|Moffett discussed the creation of an "Alternet" over dinner on May
|7, 1987 at G.T's Sunset BBQ in Mount View California. An
|"alternative" distribution system was organized by this group that
|didn't use the "backbone" links. A new top-level hierarchy name
|"alt.*" was created for this distribution. In Henry Edward Hardy's
|history, Reid is quoted as saying:
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| " John's home computer was "hoptoad"; my home computer was
| "mejac". We set up a link between us, and each of us set up a
| link to amdahl, and we vowed to pass all alt traffic to each
| other and to nurse the net along. In those days one sent out
| numerous newgroup messages in the hopes that one would "take";
| by the end of May the groups alt.test, alt.config, alt.drugs,
| and alt.gourmand were active. At the time I also managed
| "decwrl", so I quietly added "alt" to the list of groups that
| it carried. "
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|Reid created the first alt.* group, alt.gourmand , because the Cabal
|wanted to put his recipe group under rec.food.* Reid, who was
|moderating mod.recipies, objected to the name rec.food.recipes
|because there were non-food recipes.Gilmore objected the Cabal's
|dropping of net.flame and the refusal to create rec.drugs. (Moffett
|just wanted to help.) Alt.drugs was also created around this time.
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|UUCP/USENET Logical Map - June 1, 1981 / mods by S. McGeady 11/19/81
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|| | microsoft| uiucdcs | |
|| | genradbo | | | | | | (Tektronix)
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||decvax+=+=+====+=+=+ | | | |
|| | | | | | | pur-phy | | tekmdp
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|| | | | +=pur-ee=+=+=====+===+ | |
|| csin | | | | | |
|| | +==o===+===================+==+========+=======+====teklabs=+
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|| | | pdp phs grumpy wolfvax |
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|| | cincy unc=+===+======+========+ |
|| | | bio | |
|| | | (Misc) | | (Misc) |
|| | | sii reed | dukgeri duke34 utzoo |
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|| +====+=+=+==+====++======+==++===duke=+===+=======+==+=========+ |
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|| | | | alice | whuxlb | utah-cs | | hou
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|| allegra | | | | | | | | | |
|| | | | | | | | | +--chico---+
|| +===+=mhtsa====research | /=+=======harpo=+==+ | |
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|| hocsr | | +=+=============+=/ cbosg---+ | |
|| ucbopt | | | | | esquire |
|| : | | | cbosgd | |
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|| ucbcory | | eagle==+=====+=====+======+=====+ | |
|| : | | | | | | | | | +-uwvax--+
|| : | | | mhuxa mhuxh mhuxj mhuxm mhuxv | |
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|| ucbcad | | | ihpss mh135a |
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|| : \--o--o------ihnss----vax135----cornell |
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|+=+==ucbvax=======+===+==+=+======+=======+=+========+=========+
| (UCB) : | | | | (Silicon valley)
| ucbarpa cmevax | | menlo70--hao
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| ucbonyx | | | sri-unix
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|Legend: | | sytek====+========+
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|- | / \ + + Uucp sdcsvax=+=======+=+======+ intelga zehntel
|= "Bus" | | |
|o jumps sdcarl phonlab sdcattb
|: Berknet
|@ Arpanet
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Er, um, what does this have to do with aaa, besides it being a usenet
newsgroup? :o/
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,5c9a1024d0700e17 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,5c9a1024d0700e17 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: 5th Anniversary alt.ascii-art (1) Date: 1998/09/09 Message-ID: <35f...@news.vossnet.net> X-Deja-AN: 389464262 References: <904...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Complaints-To: abu...@cableinet.net X-Trace: news3.cableinet.co.uk 905365024 6772 195.188.10.2 (9 Sep 1998 18:17:04 GMT) Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Reply-To: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 1998 18:17:04 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation
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