Jim Ellis (computing)

<h2 id="personal-life-and-death">Personal life and death</h2>
<p>Ellis and his wife, Carolyn, had two children.
</p><p>He died of <a href="/facts/Non-Hodgkin_lymphoma/KIFxt74F">non-Hodgkin lymphoma</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> a form of blood cancer, at his home in <a href="/facts/Harmony%2c_Pennsylvania/MEALjeL0">Harmony, Pennsylvania</a> on June 28, 2001. He was 45.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-29-ellis-usenet.htm">Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Associated_Press/b4T5P1bT">Associated Press</a>, on <a href="/facts/USA_Today/mMa7JSPN">USAToday.com</a></i>, June 29, 2001, retrieved on December 22, 2006.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516021509/https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/1993.php">Second Annual EFF Pioneer Awards</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Hafner, Katie (July 1, 2001). "James T. Ellis, 45, a Developer Of Internet Discussion Network". New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Bonnett, Cara (May 17, 2010). "Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups". Duke University. <a href="https://today.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html" target="_blank">https://today.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Hafner, Katie (July 1, 2001). "James T. Ellis, 45, a Developer Of Internet Discussion Network". New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Hafner, Katie (July 1, 2001). "James T. Ellis, 45, a Developer Of Internet Discussion Network". New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/us/james-t-ellis-45-a-developer-of-internet-discussion-network.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Delio, Michelle. "Usenet Pioneer Jim Ellis Dies". Wired. Retrieved September 16, 2018. <a href="https://www.wired.com/2001/06/usenet-pioneer-jim-ellis-dies/" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/2001/06/usenet-pioneer-jim-ellis-dies/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Obituary: Jim Ellis / He helped pave the Information Highway". old.post-gazette.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018. <a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20010629ellis0629p2.asp" target="_blank">http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20010629ellis0629p2.asp</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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