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Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/),
USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a
worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was
developed from...
- A
Usenet newsgroup is a
repository usually within the
Usenet system, for
messages posted from
users in
different locations using the Internet. They are...
- A
Usenet personality was a
particular kind of
Internet celebrity,
being an
individual who
gained a
certain level of
notoriety from
posting on
Usenet, a...
- A
newsreader is an
application program that
reads articles on
Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups.
Newsreaders act as
clients which connect to a news...
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September that
never ended is
Usenet slang for a
period beginning around 1993 when
Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users...
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first used in
Internet slang, with
numerous unattested accounts of BBS and
Usenet origins in the
early 1980s or before. The
English noun "troll" in the standard...
- interests.
Until February 2024, the
Groups service also
provided a
gateway to
Usenet newsgroups, both
reading and
posting to them, via a
shared user interface...
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Usenet II was a
proposed alternative to the
classic Usenet hierarchy,
started in 1998.
Unlike the
original Usenet, it was
peered only
between "sound sites"...
- The
USENET Cookbook was an
experiment in
electronic publishing conducted by
Brian Reid in 1985–1987,
several years before the Web. Reid
distinguishes between...
- term is
applied to
similar abuses in
other media:
instant messaging spam,
Usenet newsgroup spam, Web
search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online...
