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Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) History
Usenet servers talk to each other over the Internet with the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) protocol. In 1984, Brian Kantor at the University of California at San Diego and Phil Lapsley, Erik Fair, Steven Grady, Mike Meyer and others at the University of California at Berkeley created the new Usenet protocol NNTP. Up until then, the Usenet Netnews program had exchanged messages using the UUCP utility. The development of NNTP enabled news servers to exchange news messages on top of the much more efficient and standard TCP/IP protocol, which was increasingly available on University networks. The NNTP standard enabled Usenet news distribution, posting, selective retrieval, and query functionality. NNTP is described in more detail in Request For Comments 977. |