On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:51:16 EDT, David Phillips said: > This is almost as fun as the BYTE8406 hemi-semi-demi newsgroup list > that started up at IBM back in 1984! (it was really more of a BBS, as > I don't think NNTP had started up at the time.) Steve Bellovin was one of the creators of NetNews in the 1979-1980 timeframe, while a grad student at UNC Chapel Hill. Rick Adams did B-News in 1984, and NNTP came along in March 1986. So in 1984, News was moving along, but via UUCP still....