Eternal September : The September That Never Ended

By NGR | Jan 29, 2010

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Earlier 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 get [...]

NewsDemon Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Usenet

By NGR | Nov 22, 2009

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NewsDemon 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 cost [...]