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164 relations: A News, Alex Martelli, Alt.* hierarchy, Alt.sex.stories, Amy Goodloe, Andrew Cuomo, AOL, ARPANET, ASCII, Ascii85, Association for Progressive Communications, Astraweb, AT&T Corporation, Attorney General of New York, B News, Backup, Base64, Bell Labs, Big 8 (Usenet), Binary file, BinHex, Bit, BitTorrent, Blog, Boo (programming language), Bourne shell, Bulletin board system, Byte, C (programming language), C News, Child pornography, Chris Lewis (Usenet), Client (computing), CNET, Command-line interface, Comparison of online backup services, Comparison of Usenet newsreaders, Computer data storage, Computer network, Computer World, Control message, Dial-up Internet access, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Duke University, Easynews, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Email, Email filtering, Encryption, Encyclopædia Britannica, ... Expand index (114 more) »
- 1980 establishments in North Carolina
- Computer-related introductions in 1980
A News
A News, or Netnews Version A, originally known simply as news, was the first widely distributed program for serving and reading Usenet newsgroups.
Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli (born October 5, 1955) is an Italian computer engineer and Fellow of the Python Software Foundation.
Alt.* hierarchy
The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically.
See Usenet and Alt.* hierarchy
Alt.sex.stories
alt.sex.stories is a Usenet newsgroup for erotic stories created on May 7, 1992, by Tim Pierce as an alternative to pre-existing alt erotica newsgroups.
See Usenet and Alt.sex.stories
Amy Goodloe
Amy Goodloe is the creator of the websites Women Online and Lesbian.org, a non-profit organization focused on documenting activities and work by lesbians on the web.
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, lawyer, and former government official who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 to 2021.
AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET. Usenet and AOL are Pre–World Wide Web online services.
See Usenet and AOL
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Usenet and ARPANET are history of the Internet.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
See Usenet and ASCII
Ascii85
Ascii85, also called Base85, is a form of binary-to-text encoding developed by Paul E. Rutter for the btoa utility.
Association for Progressive Communications
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of organizations that was founded in 1990 to provide communication infrastructure, including Internet-based applications, to groups and individuals who work for peace, human rights, protection of the environment, and sustainability.
See Usenet and Association for Progressive Communications
Astraweb
Astraweb is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider.
AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
See Usenet and AT&T Corporation
Attorney General of New York
The attorney general of New York is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government.
See Usenet and Attorney General of New York
B News
B News was a Usenet news server developed at the University of California, Berkeley by Matt Glickman and Mary Ann Horton as a replacement for A News.
Backup
In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.
Base64
In computer programming, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of printable characters, limited to a set of 64 unique characters. Usenet and Base64 are internet Standards.
Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
Big 8 (Usenet)
The Big 8 (previously the Big 7) are a group of newsgroup hierarchies established after the Great Renaming, a restructuring of Usenet that took place in 1987.
Binary file
A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.
BinHex
BinHex, originally short for "binary-to-hexadecimal", is a binary-to-text encoding system that was used on the classic Mac OS for sending binary files through e-mail.
Bit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.
See Usenet and Bit
BitTorrent
BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.
Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
See Usenet and Blog
Boo (programming language)
Boo is an object-oriented, statically typed, general-purpose programming language that seeks to make use of the Common Language Infrastructure's support for Unicode, internationalization, and web applications, while using a Python-inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility.
See Usenet and Boo (programming language)
Bourne shell
The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems.
Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Usenet and bulletin board system are computer-mediated communication, online chat and Pre–World Wide Web online services.
See Usenet and Bulletin board system
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
See Usenet and Byte
C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
See Usenet and C (programming language)
C News
C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News.
Child pornography
Child pornography (also called CP, child sexual abuse material, CSAM, child porn, kiddie porn) is erotic material that depicts persons under the designated age of majority.
See Usenet and Child pornography
Chris Lewis (Usenet)
Christopher Lewis is a Canadian computer security consultant from Ottawa, who fought spam on Usenet and the early Internet.
See Usenet and Chris Lewis (Usenet)
Client (computing)
Client is a computer that gets information from another computer called server in the context of client–server model of computer networks.
See Usenet and Client (computing)
CNET
CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
See Usenet and CNET
Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.
See Usenet and Command-line interface
Comparison of online backup services
This is a comparison of online backup services.
See Usenet and Comparison of online backup services
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
This is a comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
See Usenet and Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
Computer data storage
Computer data storage or digital data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.
See Usenet and Computer data storage
Computer network
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Usenet and computer network are computer networks.
See Usenet and Computer network
Computer World
Computer World (Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981.
Control message
Control messages are a special kind of Usenet post that are used to control news servers.
See Usenet and Control message
Dial-up Internet access
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.
See Usenet and Dial-up Internet access
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Usenet and Digital Millennium Copyright Act are history of the Internet.
See Usenet and Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
See Usenet and Duke University
Easynews
Easynews, Inc is a HW Media Usenet/newsgroup reseller.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
See Usenet and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices. Usenet and Email are computer-mediated communication and history of the Internet.
See Usenet and Email
Email filtering
Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria.
See Usenet and Email filtering
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
See Usenet and Encyclopædia Britannica
Eternal September
Eternal September or the September that never ended refers to a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. Usenet and Eternal September are history of the Internet.
See Usenet and Eternal September
FAQ
A frequently asked questions (FAQ) list is often used in articles, websites, email lists, and online forums where common questions tend to recur, for example through posts or queries by new users related to common knowledge gaps.
See Usenet and FAQ
Fediverse
The fediverse (commonly abbreviated to fedi) is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.
FidoNet
FidoNet logo by John Madill FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). Usenet and FidoNet are computer-mediated communication and Pre–World Wide Web online services.
File sharing
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Usenet and File sharing are computer-mediated communication.
Fine art
In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.
Flaming (Internet)
Flaming, also known as roasting, is the act of posting insults, often including profanity or other offensive language, on the internet. Usenet and Flaming (Internet) are internet culture.
See Usenet and Flaming (Internet)
Flooding algorithm
A flooding algorithm is an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a graph.
See Usenet and Flooding algorithm
Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.|lit.
See Usenet and Fraunhofer Society
Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
See Usenet and Free Software Foundation
Gene Spafford
Eugene Howard Spafford (born 1956), known as Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a computer security expert.
Geoff Collyer
Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.
Giganews
Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google Groups
Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests.
Great Renaming
The Great Renaming was a restructuring of Usenet newsgroups that took place in 1987.
Henry Spencer
Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast.
Index term
In information retrieval, an index term (also known as subject term, subject heading, descriptor, or keyword) is a term that captures the essence of the topic of a document.
Inter-server
In computer network protocol design, inter-server communication is an extension of the client–server model in which data are exchanged directly between servers.
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. Usenet and Internet forum are online chat.
Internet protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. Usenet and Internet protocol suite are history of the Internet and internet protocols.
See Usenet and Internet protocol suite
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.
See Usenet and Internet service provider
Internet suite
An Internet suite is an Internet-related software suite.
InterNetNews
InterNetNews (INN) is a Usenet news server package, originally released by Rich Salz in 1991, and presented at the Summer 1992 USENIX conference in San Antonio, Texas.
JANET
Janet is a high-speed network for the UK research and education community provided by Jisc, a not-for-profit company set up to provide computing support for education.
See Usenet and JANET
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
See Usenet and Japan
Jargon
Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity.
Jim Ellis (computing)
James Tice Ellis (May 6, 1956June 28, 2001) was an American computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet, along with Tom Truscott.
See Usenet and Jim Ellis (computing)
Kai Puolamäki
Kai Puolamäki is a Finnish physicist and Internet activist.
Kilo-
Kilo is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand (103).
See Usenet and Kilo-
Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
Laurence A. Canter (born June 24, 1953) and Martha S. Siegel (born April 9, 1948) were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam on April 12, 1994.
See Usenet and Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
LGBT movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
See Usenet and Linux
List of Usenet newsreaders
Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
See Usenet and List of Usenet newsreaders
Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
Mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. Usenet and mailing list are internet culture.
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
See Usenet and Malta
Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer.
See Usenet and Marc Andreessen
Mary Ann Horton
Mary Ann Horton (born Mark Randolph Horton, on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer.
See Usenet and Mary Ann Horton
Mega-
Mega is a unit prefix in metric systems of units denoting a factor of one million (106 or 000).
See Usenet and Mega-
Metadata
Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.
Michael Hauben
Michael Frederick Hauben (May 1, 1973 – June 27, 2001) was an American Internet theorist and author.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Usenet and MIME are internet Standards.
See Usenet and MIME
NCSA Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic was among the first widely available web browsers, instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics. Usenet and NCSA Mosaic are history of the Internet.
Network address
A network address is an identifier for a node or host on a telecommunications network.
See Usenet and Network address
Network News Transfer Protocol
The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Usenet and Network News Transfer Protocol are internet Standards.
See Usenet and Network News Transfer Protocol
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
News server
A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles.
Newsreader (Usenet)
A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups.
See Usenet and Newsreader (Usenet)
Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP), a group which includes Internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries, by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others.
See Usenet and Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
Parchive
Parchive (a portmanteau of parity archive, and formally known as Parity Volume Set Specification) is an erasure code system that produces par files for checksum verification of data integrity, with the capability to perform data recovery operations that can repair or regenerate corrupted or missing data.
PC World
PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
See Usenet and PCMag
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the "down-stream" users of each network.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Plain old telephone service
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), or Plain Ordinary Telephone System, is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission over copper loops.
See Usenet and Plain old telephone service
Port (computer networking)
In computer networking, a port or port number is a number assigned to uniquely identify a connection endpoint and to direct data to a specific service. Usenet and port (computer networking) are internet protocols.
See Usenet and Port (computer networking)
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
See Usenet and Proprietary software
RAR (file format)
RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error correction and file spanning.
See Usenet and RAR (file format)
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.
See Usenet and Recording Industry Association of America
Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Request for Comments
A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Usenet and Request for Comments are internet Standards.
See Usenet and Request for Comments
Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)
Richard L. "Rick" Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer.
See Usenet and Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)
Scientology and the Internet
There are a number of disputes concerning the Church of Scientology's attempts to suppress material critical of Scientology and the organization on the Internet, utilizing various methods primarily lawsuits and legal threats, as well as front organizations.
See Usenet and Scientology and the Internet
Serdar Argic
Serdar Argic (Serdar Argıç) was the alias used in one of the first automated newsgroup spam incidents on Usenet, with the objective of denying the Armenian genocide.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission.
See Usenet and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Social media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks. Usenet and Social media are computer-mediated communication and internet culture.
Social networking service
A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
See Usenet and Social networking service
Sock puppet account
A sock puppet is a false online identity used for deceptive purposes.
See Usenet and Sock puppet account
Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Spamming
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user. Usenet and Spamming are internet culture.
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company.
See Usenet and Sprint Corporation
Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security who has been a professor in the computer science department at Columbia University since 2005.
See Usenet and Steven M. Bellovin
Steven McGeady
Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
Store and forward
Store and forward is a telecommunications technique in which information is sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station.
See Usenet and Store and forward
Supernews (Usenet provider)
Supernews is a Usenet service provider founded in 1995.
See Usenet and Supernews (Usenet provider)
Talk.origins
talk.origins (often capitalised to Talk.Origins or abbreviated as t.o.) is a Usenet discussion forum concerning the origins of life, and evolution.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
Thread (online communication)
Conversation threading is a feature used by many email clients, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and Internet forums in which the software aids the user by visually grouping messages with their replies.
See Usenet and Thread (online communication)
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
See Usenet and Tim Berners-Lee
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company.
See Usenet and Time Warner Cable
Tom Truscott
Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University.
Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. Usenet and Transmission Control Protocol are internet protocols.
See Usenet and Transmission Control Protocol
Transport Layer Security
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. Usenet and Transport Layer Security are internet protocols.
See Usenet and Transport Layer Security
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.
See Usenet and University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
See Usenet and University of California, Berkeley
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
See Usenet and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States.
See Usenet and University of Oklahoma
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
See Usenet and University of Toronto
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.
See Usenet and University of Western Ontario
Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
See Usenet and Unix
Upload
Uploading refers to transmitting data from one computer system to another through means of a network.
Usenet II
Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998.
Usenet newsgroup
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet.
See Usenet and Usenet newsgroup
Usenet personality
A Usenet personality was a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a global network of computer users with a vast array of topics for discussion.
See Usenet and Usenet personality
USENIX
USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research.
UUCP
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
See Usenet and UUCP
Uuencoding
uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix programs uuencode and uudecode written by Mary Ann Horton at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980, for encoding binary data for transmission in email systems.
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc., is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.
Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
See Usenet and Vice (magazine)
Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
See Usenet and Wired (magazine)
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).
See Usenet and World Intellectual Property Organization
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
X-No-Archive
X-No-Archive, also known colloquially as xna, is a newsgroup message header field used to prevent a Usenet message from being archived in various servers.
X.25
X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet-switched data communication in wide area networks (WAN).
See Usenet and X.25
Xxencoding
xxencode is a binary-to-text encoding similar to uuencode which uses only the alphanumeric characters, and the plus and minus signs.
YEnc
yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages on Usenet or via e-mail.
See Usenet and YEnc
See also
1980 establishments in North Carolina
- Baseball America
- Drive-In Studio
- Eno River Festival
- Folk Art Center
- International Whistlers Convention
- Joint Special Operations Command
- Myrtle Beach Pelicans
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
- Ragan-Brown Field House
- Usenet
- Vectrix Corporation
- WPFJ
- WSME
- Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer
Computer-related introductions in 1980
- Acorn Atom
- Apple III
- Atari 810
- BASICODE
- Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange
- Code page 437
- ComPAN 8
- D8000
- DAI Personal Computer
- Dual-ported video RAM
- Ethernet
- HP 9845C
- IBM 5120
- IMKO-1
- Intel 8087
- MicroAce
- Philips P2000
- Pocket computer
- Portal (computer)
- Quantum computing
- Sharp PC-1211
- TRS-80 Color Computer
- Tandy Pocket Computer
- Usenet
- User Datagram Protocol
- VIC-20
- VT640
- Video Genie
- X87
- Xerox Character Code Standard
- Z-80 SoftCard
- ZX80
References
Also known as Binary retention time, Net news, NetNews, News URI, Nntp URI, Rec.humor, UBackup, Usenet (identifier), Usenet backup, Usenet news, Usenet newsfeed size, Usenetter, User's Network, Usernet, Web2news.