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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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´net/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/yooz´net/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8216;Users' Network&#8217;; the original spelling was
USENET, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred] A distributed
<a href="../B/bboard.html"><i class="glossterm">bboard</i></a> (bulletin board) system supported mainly by
Unix machines. Originally implemented in 1979--1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim
Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University and the University
of North Carolina, it has swiftly grown to become international in scope
and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in
existence. As of late 2002, it hosts over 100,000
<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a>s and an unguessably huge volume of new
technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
<a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a> every day (and that leaves out the
graphics...).</p><p>By the year the Internet hit the mainstream (1994) the original UUCP
transport for Usenet was fading out of use &#8212; almost all Usenet
connections were over Internet links. A lot of newbies and journalists
began to refer to &#8220;<span class="quote">Internet newsgroups</span>&#8221; as though Usenet was
and always had been just another Internet service. This ignorance greatly
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> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Usenet-Death-Penalty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">URL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Usenet Death Penalty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>