Here is someone who should not be forgotten....Thanks, Jim.
Jim Ellis HARMONY, Pa. (AP) - Jim Ellis, who helped create the information-sharing electronic bulletin boards that predated the World Wide Web, died Thursday. He was 45 and had been ill with non-Hodgkins lymphoma for two years.
Most recently an Internet security consultant with Sun Microsystems, Ellis was one of the creators of Usenet, which linked computers and allowed people to share information and reply to messages.
Usenet began in 1979 when Ellis and another Duke graduate student, Tom Truscott, thought of hooking together compute
rs to share information. In early 1980, the network consisted of two sites at Duke and one at the University of North Carolina.
By late 1999, the number of newsgroups was estimated at more than 37,000. Ellis and the other creators of Usenet made no money from it because it was not a commercial venture, said Ellis' wife, Carolyn.
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