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....