[DOC] [TLE] A Piece of Internet History - Duke Today - Duke University [PAR] May 17, 2010 ... Working with a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, they came up with a simple 
program ... The "Users Network," Usenet for short, grew into an international 
electronic ... Answers are below. 1. What was the first Usenet newsgroup? 2. ... 
Usenet, it is still in use, with tens of thousands of discussion groups. [DOC] [TLE] LEARN THE NET: All About Newsgroups [PAR] Jan 11, 2010 ... There are literally thousands of newsgroups covering every topic imaginable--
from computers, ... A Brief History of Newsgroups ... In 1979 a couple of Duke 
University graduate students connected some computers ... This network, called 
Usenet, grew into a voluntary, cooperative exchange of newsfeeds,... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Net - Electronic Frontier Foundation [PAR] That is: would we see a single multi-purpose network encompassing all ... 
definition of the Net would encompass not only the Internet, Usenet and their kin 
but ..... In May 1979, Landweber convened a two day meeting of representatives 
from ... scripts written by University of North Carolina (UNC) graduate student 
Steve... [DOC] [TLE] History of Usenet | Usenet Learning Center [PAR] History of the Usenet Usenet was born approximately three decades ago, in 1979
. ... 110,000 different newsgroups filled with thousands of terabytes of articles. 
What began as two or three servers on a single network in 1979, expanded to 15 
... Two Duke University graduate students in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and 
Jim... [DOC] [TLE] Encarta Encyclopedia (U-Z)- Page 567 of 2573 - ArenaLibrary.com [PAR] During World War II Swinemunde (now Uwinoujcie), the chief town of ... Usenet 
was created in 1979 by Duke University graduate students Jim Ellis and Tom 
Truscott. ... ->Usenet, worldwide computer network that encompasses thousands 
of... [DOC] [TLE] CS 214 Lecture 04 - Internet Tools and Services - Scribd [PAR] Lecture 4: Internet Tools and Services. 2. CS 214 Introduction to Internet and 
HTML .... Usenet, worldwide computer network that encompasses thousands of 
discussion groups, called newsgroups that allow the exchange of news, ... Duke 
University graduate students Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott created Usenet in 1979. [DOC] [TLE] ARPANET Mailing Lists and Usenet Newsgroups Creating an Open ... [PAR] Jun 7, 1975 ... (2) A similar kind of collaborative communication process was developed via ... 
The new network became known as the ARPANET. .... "In various current 
networks of computers," they write, "large numbers (thousands) of individuals ..... 
was created in 1979 by graduate students at the Duke University and the... [DOC] [TLE] ZEN OF THE INTERNET [PAR] Forestry & Agricultural Network 49 5.5.4 University of Maryland Info ... Zen and 
the Art of the Internet Appendix C Newsgroup Creation 79 Discussion 79 Voting 
... and a "virtual" library of millions of volumes and thousands of papers affords 
them ...... Two Duke University grad students in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and 
Jim... [DOC] [TLE] Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server - Slashdot [PAR] May 19, 2010 ... On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides ... of Internet 
history, which got its start at Duke University more than 30 years ago. ... of 
newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom ..... Then every 
user of the ISP can download it on the ISPs network at no cost to the ISP... [DOC] [TLE] Page 3-58 - University of Illinois at Chicago [PAR] The Net or the Internet, BITNET, FlDOnet, other physical networks, Usenet, 
VMSnet, .... As interests form or events occur, discussion groups can be created. 
... Licklider observed as the ARPANET grew to span two continents that this 
physical ...... in 1979 when Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, graduate students at Duke 
University,... [DOC] [TLE] The Internet is different is a common claim of those who analyze its ... [PAR] Short Analysis of the Hierarchical Newsgroup Creation Structures * ...... Created 
in 1979 by two graduate students at Duke University, the (Unix) User Network, 
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Question: This network that encompasses thousands of news groups was created in 1979 by 2 Duke University grad students
Answer: Usenet