Tom Truscott

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Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.

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• The Evolution Of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET Contains excerpts of Invitation to a General Access UNIX* Network, the original USENIX handout describing Usenet
• Interview with Tom Truscott

His Usenet posts:

• As trt@rti.uucp
• As trt!rti-sel.uucp
• As trt@news.cs.duke.edu
• As trt@cs.duke.edu