- LUSENET
LUSENET was a free public bulletin-board system active from 1995 to 2005.
Created as an experiment by MIT computer scientist and early
internet entrepreneurPhilip Greenspun , theTCL -based system was named as a pun combination ofUSENET andluser . Because LUSENET allowed anyone to start their own forum for free and did not havebanner ad s, it became an important alternative to commercial sites run by Yahoo andGoogle . It was long favored by non-profits and eventuallyblog gers in the late 1990s, such as one for the unofficial [http://zpub.com/sf/history/ San Francisco History Index] , and the popularILX (I Love Music) forums.The system running LUSENET crashed in March 2005 and it is no longer active. The content is frozen as of that date.
External links
* [http://greenspun.com/bboard/ LUSENET]
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