Usenet

Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Users, sometimes called Usenetters, read and post email-like messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups, categories that resemble bulletin board systems in most respects. The medium is sustained among a large number of servers, which store and forward messages to one another. Usenet is of significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ" and "spam".

External links

• More information about Usenet
• Google Usenet archive
• Access to Binary Usenet Content
• Searching for Binary Usenet Content
• Everything2 write up about Usenet
• 20 Year Usenet Timeline - selection of memorable and historic Usenet postings
• Netscan - Microsoft Research Usenet Social Accounting Search Engine - measurements of Usenet newsgroups, authors and threads since September 1999
• Replayer, a set of free tools including a searchable archive of small binary postings.
• Premium Usenet Providers a comparative guide to commercial news services
• newsreaders.com a directory of Usenet information, software, and service providers
• Cyber Justice Usenet News to Web Gateway a news-to-web gateway.
• Links and F.A.Q About Free Open Nntp Servers.
• List of open NNTP newsservers Collection of free public usenet news servers