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Usenet news
/yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ (Or "Usenet news", from
"Users' Network") A distributed bulletin board system and
the people who post and read articles thereon. Originally
implemented in 1979 - 1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom
Truscott and Steve Daniel at Duke University, and supported
mainly by Unix machines, it swiftly grew to become
international in scope and, before the advent of the web,
probably the largest decentralised information utility in
existence.
Usenet encompassed government agencies, universities, high
schools, businesses of all sizes and home computers of all
descriptions. As of early 1993, it hosted over 1200
newsgroups ("groups" for short) and an average of 40
megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of
new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
flamage every day. By November 1999, the number of groups
had grown to over 37,000.
To join in, you need a {Usenet provider
(https://www.usenetstorm.com)}. Originally you needed a {news
reader} program but there are now several web gateways,
cheifly Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/)
(originally Deja News). Some web browsers used to include
news readers and URLs beginning "news:" referred to Usenet
newsgroups.
Network News Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to
transfer news articles between a news server and a {news
reader}. In the beginning, not all Usenet hosts were on the
Internet. The uucp protocol was sometimes used to
transfer articles between servers, though this became
increasingly rare with the spread of the Internet.
[Gene Spafford , "What is Usenet?",
regular posting to news:news.announce.newusers].
(2017-09-26)
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