Also arrived at via <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/usenet_duke_server/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/usenet_duke_server/</a> , which also has a link to a 1992 history (<a href="http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Internet/HaubenEvolutionNetnews.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Internet/HaubenEvolutionNet...</a> ).<p>By the way, not all in the Duke piece is to be taken as gospel. I think the 1983 "get a file from one computer to another across the country" may actually have been UUCP (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP</a> ). And Arpanet was already on, with FTP, etc. although at relatively few sites.<p>(A couple of years later, getting a complete Emacs tarball from prep.ai.mit.edu was still a sporting proposition - watching hash characters march across the terminal on an ftp without auto-resume - actually, no resume at all, just retry ...)