The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14a.html
The Early History of Usenet, Part II: Hardware and Economics:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-15.html
The Early History of Usenet, Part III: File Format:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-17.html
Fun reading. Bellovin is another person we should try to get
to join this list.
Enjoy,
Arnold