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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Usenet</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="URL.html" title="URL"/><link rel="next" href="Usenet-Death-Penalty.html" title="Usenet Death Penalty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Usenet</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="URL.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Usenet-Death-Penalty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Usenet"/><dt xmlns="" id="Usenet"><b>Usenet</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/yoos<6F>net/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/yooz<6F>net/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘Users' Network’; the original spelling was
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USENET, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred] A distributed
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<a href="../B/bboard.html"><i class="glossterm">bboard</i></a> (bulletin board) system supported mainly by
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Unix machines. Originally implemented in 1979--1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim
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Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University and the University
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of North Carolina, it has swiftly grown to become international in scope
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and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in
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existence. As of late 2002, it hosts over 100,000
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<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a>s and an unguessably huge volume of new
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technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
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<a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a> every day (and that leaves out the
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graphics...).</p><p>By the year the Internet hit the mainstream (1994) the original UUCP
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transport for Usenet was fading out of use — almost all Usenet
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connections were over Internet links. A lot of newbies and journalists
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began to refer to “<span class="quote">Internet newsgroups</span>” as though Usenet was
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and always had been just another Internet service. This ignorance greatly
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annoys experienced Usenetters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="URL.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Usenet-Death-Penalty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">URL<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Usenet Death Penalty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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