User: jbskbert

Re:paper on usenet early days

On: Usenet Archive from 1981

Aah .. Ronda Hauben :) She's done a lot for Internet research, such as publishing a book on the subject ("Netizens") with her son Michael who was also the editor of an online newsletter called the Amateur Computerist which had a 1994 edition celebrating 25 years of UNIX ( http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~rwoods/internet/amco mp61.html), among other things. The guy behind the Usenet archives, by the way, is Bruce Jones, who was one of the first Usenet ethnographers and nearly wrote his thesis on the subject, just in case you were wondering. As well as the A-news archive, he also maintains an archive on the discussion on the history of Usenet, in which most of the Usenet biggies participated (Rich Salz, Mark Horton, Gene Spafford etc.) For more on Internet history and culture, check out http://duplox.wz-berlin.de (warning: most of the articles are in German, but the most important ones have been translated).

Jillian.