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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:30:52 +0100, "Nebulous"
<Nebulous@pigtail.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>Do you think some posts could have gone missing?

I'm not sure that Google has a complete archive as the first post is
March 94. I would have expected uk.finance to have been one of the
first groups set up whenever the UK universities got access as there
has always seemed to be a fair amount of interest from academics.

A quick search reveals that usenet got going (1990) after JANET (1984)
-


1979
-- News Groups born

USENET established using UUCP.
Why is this relevant?


USENET still thrives today.
A collection of discussions groups, news groups.
3 news groups established by the end of the year
Almost any topic now has a discussion group.



1982


EUnet (European UNIX Network) is created by EUUG to provide E-mail and
USENET services. Original connections between the Netherlands,
Denmark, Sweden, and UK


1984
-- Growth of Internet Continues

JANET (Joint Academic Network) established in the UK
Moderated newsgroups introduced on USENET.

1986
-- Power of Internet Realised

241 News groups.

1987
-- Commercialisation of Internet Born

UUNET is founded with Usenix funds to provide commercial UUCP and
Usenet access.

1990
-- Expansion of Internet continues

1,000 News groups

1991

Start of JANET IP Service (JIPS) using TCP/IP within the UK academic
network.

1992
News groups 4,000

1994
-- Commercialisation begins
10,000 News groups.

WWW edges out telnet to become 2nd most popular service on the Net
(behind ftp-data) based on % of packets and bytes traffic distribution
on NSFNET


1995
-- Commercialisation continues apace

Traditional online dial-up systems (Compuserve, America Online,
Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access

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