By John Oates, 29 June 2001 16:28
NEWS Jim Ellis, one of the founding fathers of the internet, has died aged 45. He died of non-Hodgkinson lymphoma. Ellis and Tom Truscott linked the first two machines to share information in 1979 while studying at Duke University in North Carolina. Academics and scientists began using the service to exchange information and relevant news. From this starting point the network quickly grew across the world and created a community which was mirrored by the later development of the web. Called Usenet, it ran using UUCP (unix-to-unix-copy protocol). In 1986 the community was riven by the Great Renaming debate when the network was completely re-organised. By 1993 it had an estimated ten million user accounts and was read by an average 2.5 million per month.
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