Re: Larry Grindinger- heart attack?

"Jim W" <cuemaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
Newsgroups are not that old. Even if you go back to ARPAnet. I was
around and BBSing then.

While it's true that Usenet news isn't 30 years old yet, I suspect Donald
was simply being figurative. Newsgroups also had nothing to do with ARPANET.
ARPANET mailing lists are just over 30 years ago, by the way. The first one
was MsgGroup, which was concerned mostly with email issues, and started in
1975. It was followed fairly soon by SF-Lovers, either later in 1975 or
early in 1976 - I don't remember exactly. Usenet news was started in 1979 by
Bellovin, Truscott and Ellis at Duke or UNC or someplace like that. However,
an Internet-friendly version of Usenet news is less than 20 years old,
starting with the development of NNTP by Brian Kantor (UCSD) and Phil
Lapsley (UCB) in 1986.

-- jwp <-- remembers far more of how all this crap worked than is probably
good for him


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