Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/), USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from...
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A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are...
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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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Eternal September (category Usenet)
providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. Prior to this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read...
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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...
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comparison of Usenet newsreaders. Legend: alt.* hierarchy List of newsgroups List of Usenet newsreaders News server Newsreader (Usenet) Network News Transfer...
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Dictionary, its earliest known use was in a 2002 message posted on the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.nintendo. In 2009, the term appeared in Mo' Urban...
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James "Kibo" Parry (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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid in 1985–1987, several years before the Web. Reid distinguishes between...
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Usenet Explorer is a news client for the Microsoft Windows operating system (also fully compatible with the Linux Wine software [citation needed]). It...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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dash (—), as a typewriter approximation Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter For Unix commands, used as a prefix for command options...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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triumphs in Usenet copyright case". Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2021. Jennings, Richi (July 2, 2009). "Usenet.com loses...
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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...
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Usenet, a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system, can be accessed through Web browsers as well as through dedicated news clients. Usenet newsgroups...
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Internet Oracle (redirect from Usenet oracle)
The Internet Oracle (historically known as The Usenet Oracle) is an effort at collective humor in a pseudo-Socratic question-and-answer format. A user...
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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...
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Backbone cabal (redirect from Usenet cabal)
administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet. It existed from about 1983 at least into the 2000s.[citation needed] The...
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