Directory: Top/Computers/Usenet/History

Gopher.quux.org : Usenet A News
Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purposes.
gopher://gopher.quux.org/1/Archives/usenet-a-news
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USENET Software: History and Sources
A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences. A useful historical summary, particularly in terms of the software used for usenet.
http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/software/part1.html
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