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Usenet
Worldwide computer-based distributed discussion system
Usenet
Usenet (), short for User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called articles or posts) to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that were developed after the introduction of the World Wide Web. Usenet is distributed among a large set of interlinked news servers that store and forward messages to one another via "news feeds". Individual users may read messages from and post to a preferred news server, and those posts will automatically be forwarded to any other news servers peered with the preferred one, while the preferred server will receive any news its peers have that it currently lacks. This results in the automatic...
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