Great Renaming
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."
{FAQ (http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename.html)}.
[{Jargon File}]
(2000-07-14)