THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

PAST / PRESENT / NEXT

Collection

Tag: tom-truscott

Usenet and the Decentralized Conversation Network

Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis and collaborators built Usenet from Unix, UUCP and dial-up telephone links, creating a decentralized discussion network whose newsgroups became one of the earliest large online communities.

↗