The Great Renaming – Part III

Part 3 – Breaking of the Backbone Cabal A number of simultaneous events rendered the Backbone Cabal irrelevant. The most important was the increased use of NNTP around this same time. Usenet’s use of Internet made it easier to ignore what the Backbone news...

The Great Renaming – Part II

Part 2 – After the Great Renaming Yet, ironically, nothing really changed for a significant portion of sites, and almost all the sites except company ones still got a full feed. As has been so often the case in Usenet history, its “imminent death”...