Usenet was conceived in 1979 and publicly established in 1980, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Many Internet service providers, and many other Internet sites, operate news servers for their users to access. ISPs that do not operate their own servers directly will often offer their users an account from another provider th… See more

Newsgroup experiments first occurred in 1979. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University came up with the idea as a replacement for a local announcement program, and established a link with nearby University … See more

Over time, the amount of Usenet traffic has steadily increased. As of 2010 the number of all text posts made in all Big-8 newsgroups averaged 1,800 new messages every hour, with an average of 25,000 me… See more

Public archives of Usenet articles have existed since the early days of Usenet, such as the system created by Kenneth Almquist in late 1982. Distributed archiving of Usenet posts was suggested in November … See more

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• Bruce Jones (July 1, 1997). "USENET History mailing list archive covering 1990-1997". Archived from the original on May 7, 2019.
• Michael Hauben, Ronda Hauben, and Thomas Truscott (April 27, 1997). Netizens: … See more