Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/), USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from... 90 KB (8,878 words) - 14:13, 19 April 2024 |
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are... 16 KB (2,151 words) - 17:47, 19 February 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,654 words) - 03:36, 10 March 2024 |
Eternal September (category Usenet) 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... 8 KB (787 words) - 05:00, 13 April 2024 |
Troll (slang) (redirect from Usenet troll) 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... 84 KB (8,893 words) - 21:30, 19 April 2024 |
The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid in 1985–1987, several years before the Web. Reid distinguishes between... 2 KB (283 words) - 10:24, 14 April 2024 |
Google Groups (category Usenet clients) 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... 17 KB (1,641 words) - 21:47, 17 April 2024 |
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"... 4 KB (423 words) - 19:49, 24 February 2024 |
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... 64 KB (6,982 words) - 09:15, 23 April 2024 |
Internet pornography (section Usenet groups) primarily via websites, FTP connections, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. The greater accessibility of the World Wide Web from the late... 39 KB (4,525 words) - 17:10, 11 January 2024 |
and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998... 53 KB (5,222 words) - 19:34, 26 April 2024 |
James Parry (Usenetter) (redirect from Kibo (Usenet)) and Usenet, Parry received publicity, including a cover story in Wired magazine and mentions in Playboy and The Times. He became known on Usenet for grepping... 11 KB (1,198 words) - 02:56, 10 March 2024 |
Muphry's law (redirect from Bell's First Law of Usenet) error itself." Named after Skitt, a contributor to alt.usage.english on Usenet. Hartman's law of prescriptivist retaliation: "Any article or statement... 10 KB (1,138 words) - 11:02, 25 November 2023 |
later sometimes B1FF, was a pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet. BIFF was created as and taken up as a satire of a partly amusing, partly... 12 KB (1,089 words) - 03:12, 10 March 2024 |
JATO Rocket Car (section Usenet posting) Assisted Chevy". This is the text as it appears, possibly most frequently, in usenet repostings: You all know about the Darwin Awards – it's the annual honor... 11 KB (1,549 words) - 13:16, 20 January 2024 |
Signature block (section Email and Usenet) block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an email message, Usenet article, or forum post. An email signature is a block of text appended to... 12 KB (1,470 words) - 03:04, 10 March 2024 |
was a program developed by Richard Depew in 1993 to aid in the control of Usenet abuse. Concerned by abusive posts emanating from certain anonymous-posting... 1 KB (124 words) - 01:59, 15 February 2021 |
comparison of Usenet newsreaders. Legend: alt.* hierarchy List of newsgroups List of Usenet newsreaders News server Newsreader (Usenet) Network News Transfer... 8 KB (46 words) - 03:21, 24 January 2024 |
Network News Transfer Protocol (category Usenet) Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles... 4 KB (503 words) - 22:00, 30 October 2023 |
mailing list. The format was then picked up on other mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups. Posting frequency changed to monthly, and finally weekly and... 8 KB (925 words) - 09:20, 31 March 2024 |
Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read... 5 KB (474 words) - 12:55, 21 March 2024 |
News server (redirect from Usenet servers-user) to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available... 20 KB (2,783 words) - 19:59, 9 March 2023 |
dash (—), as a typewriter approximation Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter For Unix commands, used as a prefix for command options... 804 bytes (118 words) - 07:27, 7 January 2024 |
Godwin's law (redirect from Goodwin's Law Of Usenet) author Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. He stated that he introduced Godwin's law in 1990... 12 KB (1,113 words) - 16:13, 28 March 2024 |
Posting style (redirect from Usenet quoting) When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting... 39 KB (5,211 words) - 22:46, 23 April 2024 |
Alt.sex.stories (category Usenet alt.* hierarchy) alt.sex.stories is a Usenet newsgroup for erotic stories created on May 7, 1992, by Tim Pierce as an alternative to pre-existing alt erotica newsgroups... 5 KB (629 words) - 02:04, 14 April 2024 |