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[yooz-net, yoos‐] /ˈyuzˌnɛt, ˈyus‐/
Computers. an extensive system of newsgroups: a branch of the Internet.
1990-95; use(rs') + net(work) Unabridged
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(computing) a vast collection of newsgroups that follow agreed naming, maintaining, and distribution practices
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Usenet in Technology
Usenet encompasses government agencies, universities, high schools, businesses of all sizes, and home computers of all descriptions. In the beginning, not all Usenet hosts were on the Internet. As of early 1993, it hosted over 1200 newsgroups ("groups" for short) and an average of 40 megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and flamage every day. By November 1999, the number of groups had grown to over 37,000.
To join in you originally needed a news reader program but there are now several web gateways, cheifly Google Groups ( (originally Deja News). Some web browsers include news readers and URLs beginning "news:" refer to Usenet newsgroups.
Network News Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to transfer news articles between a news server and a news reader. The uucp protocol was sometimes used to transfer articles between servers, though this is probably rare now that most sites are on the Internet.
Notes on news ( by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen .
[Gene Spafford , "What is Usenet?", regular posting to news:news.announce.newusers].
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