Look up: usenet

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   Usenet
   Usenet (from `Users' Network') is a distributed bulletin board system supported mainly by UNIX computers. It was originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, it quickly grew to become international in scope and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in existence.
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   UseNet
   A distributed discussion system, details ...
   Found on http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/u/index.
   
   
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   USENET
   User's Network [Internet]
   Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab
   
   
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   USENET
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) Initiated in 1979, one of the oldest and largest co-operative networks, with over 10,000 hosts and a quarter of a million users. Its primary service is news and a distributed conferencing service.
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   USENET
   A worldwide system of discussion groups, with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines.
   Found on http://www.everlands.co.uk/glossary.htm
   
   
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   Usenet
   the term used to refer to the Internet news network - Usenet is not a real physical network as such (although it was once, apparently) - it is a virtual network of news servers which communicate via the Internet - there is no central Usenet site - instead, news propagates around the world as each server connects to its news feed (another news serve...
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   Usenet
   (messaging) /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...
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   usenet
   a distributed and decentralised world-wide system of topical discussion groups which are arranged according to abbreviated prefix and suffix groups Category: News-systems and communications
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Usenet
   `Usenet` (a contraction of `user network`) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Users read and post public messages (called `articles` or `posts`, and collectively termed `news`) to one or more categories, known as `newsgroups`. Usenet resembles bulletin boa...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
   
   
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    USENET
    (from the article `Social Networking—Making Connections on the Web`) ...social networks appeared almost as soon as the technology could support them. E-mail and chat programs debuted in the early 1970s, but persistent ... ...As the 1980s wore on, further networks were added. In North America there were (among others): BITNET (Becau...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/18
    
    
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    USENET
    A world-wide system of discussion groups, with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines. Not all USENET machines are on the Internet. USENET is completely decentralized, with over 10,000 discussion areas, called newsgroups.
    Found on http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.ht