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".

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Usenet terms

• AOLer
• backbone cabal
• Breidbart Index
• FAQ
• flaming and flame war
• Flood aka flooders and flooding
• FWAK
• Godwin's law
• It's always September
• kill file
• list of newsgroups
• MSTing
• scorefile
• Skitt's law
• sock puppet
• sporgery
• Trolling
• There is no Cabal
• Usenet Death Penalty
• Usenet cabal
• X-No-Archive
• Your mileage may vary

Usenet history

• rec.sport.pro-wrestling
• alt.fan.warlord
• alt.tv.simpsons
• Cindy's Torment
• Eternal September
• Greg Deeter
• Great Renaming
• Meow Wars
• rec.music.white-power newsgroup vote
• Scientology vs. the Internet
• Serdar Argic

Usenet administrators

• Russ Allbery
• Dave the Resurrector
• David (Tale) Lawrence
• Gene (Spaf) Spafford

Usenet personalities

• Joel Furr
• Kibo
• The Meowers
• Kenneth Pangborn
• Romath
• Archimedes Plutonium
• Mark V Shaney
• Internet Oracle
• Valery Fabrikant
• Serdar Argic
• Robert E. McElwaine
• Wednesday White
• Michael Zeleny
• Hipcrime