William's random thoughts

General thoughts related to my various projects

Tue, 18 May 2010

Historic Usenet Source code


Whenever I get involved with something I like to study it's history for me that means finding the earliest copies of the software and sources.

I decided today to find a copy of the original B-News software and spent a few hours pulling my hair out since ftp.uu.net seems to be no more.

Finally I managed to find copies of A news B news and C news plus the nntp reference implementation. In the interests of posterity I am hosting a copy of the software I found here

I hope I save someone from pulling their hair out.

[/projects/teotwawki] permanent link RSS feed


Archives: