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Usenet, history The
flag day in 1986 on which all of the
non-local groups on the
Usenet had their names changed from
the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names.
"The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the
Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
(2000-07-14)