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	\|[http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.important/msg/d29c0831c57db9f3?hl=en\|April Fools Called Off].		\|[http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.important/msg/d29c0831c57db9f3?hl=en April Fools Called Off].
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	\|[http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_94.html\|Kibo proposes HappyNet].		\|[http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_94.html Kibo proposes HappyNet].
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	\|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_That_Never_Ended\|The September That Never Ended].		\|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_That_Never_Ended The September That Never Ended].
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	See [http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html "20 Year Archive on Google Groups"] for other highlights.		See [http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html "20 Year Archive on Google Groups"] for other highlights.

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{| {{Prettytable}}
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!Date
!Event
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| 1979
|Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Usenet invent a method of sharing news].
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| 1980
|Usenet, Usenix, UUCP developed as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet "the poor man's ARPANET."]
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| 1981
|net.news split off from net.general to [[Big-8#History_of_news.groups|discuss new newsgroups]].
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| 1982
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Horton Mark Horton] creates net.news.group.
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| 1983
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Horton Mark Horton] creates net.announce, the [http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/758b2dd9c67f8fab?dmode=source first moderated newsgroup].
|-
| 1983
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaf|Gene Spafford (Spaf)] organizes the [http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/0015.html backbone].
|-
| 1984
|[http://groups.google.com/group/net.news/msg/354c90539a5b0882?hl=en Is the death of the net coming in September?]
|-
| 1984
|[http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/0016.html Development of newspaths] improves moderation (B News 2.11).
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| 1986-87
|[[Great renaming|The Great Renaming]]: The Big Seven organized. Roots of the voting system planted.
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| 1986
|net.news.group renamed [[Big-8#History_of_news.groups|news.groups]].
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| 1987
|[[Alt|alt.* groups]] formed.
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| 1987
|[[Guidelines|First Guidelines for Creation: Spafford, Horton, Adams, Woods, Fair as backbone admins]].
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| 1988
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaf Spaf] kills the [http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/0015.html backbone (The Cabal)].
|-
| 1989
|news.announce.newgroups created [http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/758b2dd9c67f8fab?dmode=source|(Greg Woods-->Eliot Lear-->tale [1991]).]
|-
| 1989
|[http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.important/msg/d29c0831c57db9f3?hl=en|April Fools Called Off].
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| 1992
|[http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_94.html|Kibo proposes HappyNet].
|-
| 1993
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_That_Never_Ended|The September That Never Ended].
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| 1993
|Formation of [http://groups.google.com/group/news.answers/msg/4dafe9592a7ccb1b?hl=en Usenet Volunteer Votetakers] (UVV) under [http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/627812702471e035?hl=en Ron "Asbestos" Dippold].
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| 1993
|[http://groups.google.com/group/soc.net-people/msg/63926ede407972df Spaf burns out, says good-bye].
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| 1993
|tale (David C. Lawrence) takes over Checkgroups from Spaf; Mark Moraes inherited other lists.
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| 1995
|New humanities hierarchy [ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/humanities/humanities.misc created by a vote of 508:97]. The Big Seven becomes the Big Eight.
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| 1996
|tale [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=news.announce.newgroups&op=index creates the PGP key] used by news.announce.newgroups moderators (1996-04-10).
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| 1997
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_II Usenet II] proposed. [http://www.usenet2.org/ Usenet II home page.]
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| 1998
|[http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_98.html HappyNet] updated.
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| 2001
|Google's [http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html 20-year retrospective of Usenet History.]
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| 2001
|[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44923,00.html Jim Ellis, RIP].
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| Oct. 13, 2002
|[http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/browse_frm/thread/b078df5a6af7e7c/9ec1d0de06a834b6?lnk=st&q=group%3Anews.announce.newgroups+insubject%3A%22Change+insubject%3Aof+insubject%3AModerators%22&rnum=1&hl=en#9ec1d0de06a834b6 Russ Allbery, Todd McComb, and piranha succeed tale].
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| 2005
|Old newsgroup creation system suspended. [http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/browse_frm/thread/8f54e0fdb1810193/81d5f8e28ddf9a52?lnk=st&q=&rnum=10&hl=en#81d5f8e28ddf9a52 Eleven people] tagged to work on a new system.
|-
| March 2006
|[[Big-8_Management_FAQ#Where_did_the_Board_come_from.3F|Big-8.org]] opens for business. skirv preserves one-syllable tradition.
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| Oct. 1, 2006
|Big-8 Management Board [[Nan:2006-09-30-big-8-transition|confirmed]] by previous n.a.n. moderators.
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| Oct. 2, 2006
|Death of Usenet. Film at 11.
|}