mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (04/16/85)
Every once in awhile I like to pull out old usenet maps and compare
them with the giant web we have now. Here's one from almost exactly 4
years ago. I'm not sure how old the net was at this point, but I think
it was at least 6 months. ucbvax!mark is the pre-columbian (or is it
columbusian?) Mark Horton.
From eagle!ucbvax!mark Wed Apr 15 10:45:18 1981
New Usenet Map : NET.news
USENET Logical Map
April 15, 1981
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decvax sii reed phs--unc--grumpy duke34
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ucbopt | mhtsa research mh135a hocsr chico---harpo
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ucbcory | | eagle ihnss vax135 (Bell Labs Sites)
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ucbvax---+----------+--+--+-----+--+------+--------+
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ucbarpa sdcsvax | menlo70--hao
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ucbonyx +-----ucsfcgl sytek
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sdcarlsmb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) (04/16/85)
From Mark Plotnick (allegra!mp): > Every once in awhile I like to pull out old usenet maps and compare > them with the giant web we have now. Here's one from almost exactly 4 > years ago. I'm not sure how old the net was at this point, but I think > it was at least 6 months. ucbvax!mark is the pre-columbian (or is it > columbusian?) Mark Horton. > Believe it or not, USENET was already a year old at the time. The first public announcement was at the January, 1980, USENIX meeting; at the time, there was already a third site (phs) that had joined the original two (duke and unc). The original idea was conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke; Tom and I did the original test implementations (which were never released, especially my moby shell script version), and Steve Daniel and Tom produced the first version of A news. --Steve Bellovin
honey@down.FUN (code 101) (04/17/85)
note that mh135a was later renamed allegra. mark, you used to have a paper copy of a map with 12 sites. care to find it and type it in? peter