 
 <prompt> Usenet na one worldwide distributed discussion system wey dey available for computers. E bin develop from the general-purpose UUCP dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis na two people wey think of the idea for 1979, and dem establish am for 1980. Users dey read and post messages (wey dem dey call "articles" or "posts", and collectively dem dey call am "news") to one or more categories, wey dem dey call newsgroups. Usenet resemble bulletin board system (BBS) for many ways and e be the precursor to Internet forums wey people dey use well well today. Discussions dey threaded, like web forums and BBSs, even though posts dey stored for the server sequentially. The name come from the term "users network".

One notable difference between BBS or web forum and Usenet na say Usenet no get central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet dey distributed among plenty servers wey dey store and forward messages to each other for wetin dem dey call news feeds. Individual users fit read messages from and post messages to a local server wey dey operated by commercial usenet provider, their Internet service provider, university, employer, or their own server.

Usenet get cultural importance for the networked world, as e don give rise to, or popularize, many well-known concepts and terms like "FAQ", "flame", and "spam". <response>: 1. Usenet
2. two
3. Tom Truscott
4. Jim Ellis
5. for 1979
6. for 1980
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8. no
9. FAQ
10. flame
11. spam
12. "users network". 