Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.

External links

• The Evolution Of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET Contains excerpts of Invitation to a General Access UNIX* Network, the original USENIX handout describing Usenet
• Interview with Tom Truscott

His Usenet posts:

• As ''trt@rti.uucp''
• As ''trt!rti-sel.uucp''
• As ''trt@news.cs.duke.edu''
• As ''trt@cs.duke.edu''