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» Site title: The Big Eight Newsgroup Creation Process
» Site description: Documents the ancient process to create, rename, remove, or change the moderation status of newsgroups in the Big Eight hierarchies. Currently, the management is done by the Big-8.org team. Written by Russ Allbery
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» Site title: Google Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline
» Site description: Notice that Google has completed integrating 20 years of Usenet posts into its archive. Includes links to notable posts including the first ever post to Usenet and the original announcement of GNU/Linux.
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- Gopher.quux.org : Usenet A News - Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purposes.
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» Site title: The Great Renaming, 1985-1988
» Site description: Lee S. Bumgarner's concise and lively history of the 1986 renaming of Usenet groups, and other events from this period.
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» Site title: Great Renaming from Wikipedia
» Site description: What the Great Renaming was, who did it, and what hierarchies were removed and created.
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» Site title: Meow
» Site description: An eyewitness account and timeline of the start of "meowing" on usenet. Newsgroup invasions, large numbers of posts, net kooks.
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» Site title: Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
» Site description: Links to Michael and Ronda Hauben's on-line book. Presents the history and impact of various aspects of the Net, such as the Internet, ARPANET, and Usenet. Attempts to help readers understand the origins of the Net, so they might help preserve its value throughout future developments and changes.
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» Site title: USENET Software: History and Sources
» Site description: A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences. A useful historical summary, particularly in terms of the software used for usenet.
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» Site title: I Remember Usenet
» Site description: Brad Templeton recalls the early days of the Internet and the rise of Usenet. (December 21, 2001)
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» Site title: The Geeks Who Saved Usenet
» Site description: Article on the restoration of the early Usenet articles to the archives at Google Groups. [Salon.Com] (January 7, 2001)
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» Site title: Interview with Brad Templeton
» Site description: Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet. (February, 1996)
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George Carlin''s Reflections on Life:
1. Never raise your hands to you kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
2. I''m not into working out. My philosophy is no pain, no pain.
3. I''m in shape. Round is a shape.
4. I''m desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
5. Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
6. I''ve always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
7. Ever notice when you blow in a dog''s face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.
8. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a maniac?
9. You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She''s 97 now and we have no idea where she is!
10. I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three of them.
11. One out of every three Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of two of your best friends. If they are OK, then it must be you.
12. They show you how detergents take out bloodstains. I think if you''ve got a T-shirt with bloodstains all over it, maybe your laundry isn''t your biggest problem.
13. Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and they tell you it''s because they''re such beautiful animals. I think my wife is beautiful, but I only have photographs of her on the wall.
14. A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said, "Don''t you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" I said, "I didn''t know there were any witnesses. Now I''ll have to kill you too!"
15. Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.
Humor of the day
Q: What is every blonde''s ambition in life?
A: To be like Vanna White and learn the alphabet.
Q: What is the blonde doing when she holds her hands tightly over her ears?
A: Trying to hold on to a thought.
Q: What is the mating call of the blonde?
A: "I''m "sooo" drunk!"
Q: What is the mating call of the ugly blonde?
A: (Screaming) "I said: I''m drunk!"
Q: Why are there so few blonde pharmacists?
A: They have a hard time getting the pill bottles into the typewriter!
Q: Why can''t blondes make ice cubes?
A: They always forget the recipe.
Q: Why did the blonde resolve to have only three children?
A: Because she heard that one child out of every four born was Chinese.
Q: Why do all blondes all have a dimple on their chin and a flat forehead?
A: Finger on chin-I don''t know. Hits forehead-Oh I get it!
Q: Why do blondes have little holes all over their faces?
A: From eating with forks.
Q: Why do blondes have see-through lunch box lids?
A2: So that when they''re on the train they can tell if they''re going to work or coming home.
Q: Why do blondes wash their hair in the sink?
A: Because that''s where you''re supposed to wash vegetables.
Q: Why does a blonde only change her baby''s diapers every month?
A: Because it says on the box: "good for up to 20 pounds."
Q: Why is it good to have a blonde passenger?
A: You can park in the handicap zone.