Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/), USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from...

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are...

A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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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