Slashdot | Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years

[Bill Stewart]

At 11:07 AM 12/11/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > From:         Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage at ssz.com]
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/11/0727218.shtml
>
>It's nostalgic to see all the bang!path addresses and .arpa hosts.

I was surprised that among their lists for first this and that
they didn't list the first use of a .com, .net, or .edu address on Usenet.

There were lots of @-style addresses even in the first few months
(viz. the TCP-IP-Digest article), but they were pre-DNS person at machine formats,
where the machine names were relative to the sender's hosts [.txt] file
and were therefore not in theory globally unique names, though in practice
they usually were.