Personal Home Page Tools (PHP) Newsgroup Post
Comments OffHappy birthday to PHP! Fifteen years ago Rasmus Lerdorf announced Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0 via a Usenet post. Here is the original post in the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi newsgroup. Archived in Google Groups: Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0. These tools are a set of small tight cgi binaries [...]
Microsoft Cutting 4,200 Support Newsgroups In June
Comments OffWe have enjoyed using Microsoft’s newsgroups over the years. Including technical newsgroups on topics like Windows, Office and SharePoint products. It will be a shame to see them go. According to Microsoft, this June they will shift from Usenet to online forums including Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN. They list centralized content, easier search and [...]
Help Save a Piece of Usenet History at Duke University
Comments OffOn May 20, 2010, Duke University’s OIT (Office of Information Technology) is planning to decommission the Duke newsgroup server – news.duke.edu. Why is that important? For several reasons including students free access to newsgroups and the historical ties that Duke has to Usenet. In 1979 Duke graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis helped bring [...]
April Fool’s Day Usenet Hoax : Kremvax Hoax
Comments OffThanks to Giganews for sharing the perfect blog topic for April Fools’ Day. On April 1, 1984 Piet Beertema posted that the Soviet Union was going to join Usenet. The post was to have come from Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The Kremlin Usenet site was to be named Kremvax. Year’s later Vadim Antonov had a [...]
Eternal September : The September That Never Ended
Comments OffEarlier this week a member of NGR brought eternal-september.org to our attention. The site is part of a private project offering free text-only newsgroup access. Previously news.motzarella.org. Read our Eternal September review to learn more. Were you around Usenet before 1993? If so you may already be familiar with the term “eternal September”. Did you [...]
NewsDemon Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Usenet
Comments OffNewsDemon helped celebrate the 30th anniversary of Usenet on November 10th, 2009. The celebration included an interview with Brad Templeton and Tom Truscott. They also managed to find the original memo announcing Usenet written at Duke University in November 1979. The original idea for Usenet was to allow communication between University Unix systems. The estimated [...]
