From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!mp Newsgroups: net.news Title: nostalgia Article-I.D.: mitccc.255 Posted: Tue Jan 11 18:26:01 1983 Received: Fri Jan 14 01:59:57 1983 I was going through my papers today, and chanced upon this bit of ancient nostalgia (over 21 months old!): USENET Logical Map April 8, 1981 reed phs---unc duke34 | | | | +---+-+--------+-+---+-------duke | | | ucbopt decvax mhtsa research mh135a | | | | | ucbcory | | eagle ihnss vax135 | | | | | | ucbvax--------+-----+--+--+-----+--+------+--------+ | | | | ucbarpa sdcsvax---ucsfcgl menlo70--hao | / | | | ucbonyx phonlab--sdcarl------+ sytek That's only 24 machines (a far cry from today, when it's a challenge to draw a network map that's planar!). This got me thinking: wouldn't it be nice if some of the inventors of netnews (from Duke, Berkeley) would reminisce about the early days of the net? Why it was started, how it grew, etc. Any takers? Mark