NewsDemon Wins 2009 Spirit of Usenet Award
Comments OffIt is an honor to present the 2009 NGR Spirit of Usenet Award to NewsDemon. The award is presented in recognition of the many enhancements made to NewsDemon’s newsgroup services along with their continued efforts to promote the growth of Usenet in 2009.
First let’s take a look at some of the enhancements NewsDemon made [...]
NewsDemon – 2010 NGR Editors Choice Award
Comments OffThis is the second post in our series of this year’s five NGR Editors Choice Award winners. Today its time to honor NewsDemon with Editors Choice recognition.
NewsDemon was on our list of Editors Choice selections in 2009 and an easy selection for 2010. As mentioned yesterday the awards are given in recognition of the best [...]
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 cost [...]



