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Usenet

Index Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. [1]

171 relations: A News, Alex Martelli, Alt.* hierarchy, Andrew Cuomo, AOL, ARPANET, ASCII, Astraweb, AT&T, Attorney General of New York, B News, Backbone cabal, Backup, Base64, Bell Labs, Big 8 (Usenet), Binary file, BinHex, Bit, Blog, Bourne shell, Breidbart Index, Bulletin board system, C (programming language), C News, Child pornography, Chris Lewis (Usenet), Cleanfeed (Usenet spam filter), Client (computing), CNET, Command-line interface, Comparison of online backup services, Comparison of Usenet newsreaders, Computer data storage, Computer network, Computer World, Control message, Conversation threading, Copyright infringement, Crossposting, David Wiseman, Dial-up Internet access, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Duke University, Easynews, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Email, Encryption, Eternal September, FAQ, ..., FidoNet, Fine art, Flaming (Internet), Flooding algorithm, Fraunhofer Society, Free Software Foundation, Gene Spafford, Geoff Collyer, Gibibyte, Giganews, Godwin's law, Google, Google Groups, Great Renaming, Henry Spencer, Highwinds Network Group, Index term, Input method, Intentional community, Inter-server, Internet, Internet forum, Internet protocol suite, Internet service provider, Internet troll, InterNetNews, JANET, Japan, Jargon, Jim Ellis (computing), Kai Puolamäki, Kibology, Kill file, Kilo-, Legion of Net.Heroes, Linus Torvalds, Linux, List of newsgroups, List of Usenet newsreaders, Literature, Mailing list, Malta, Marc Andreessen, Mary Ann Horton, Mega-, Metadata, Michael Hauben, Microsoft, MIME, Mosaic (web browser), Mozilla Thunderbird, MSTing, Netizen, Network address, Network News Transfer Protocol, New England, New York (state), News server, News server operation, Newsreader (Usenet), Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Otherkin, Outlook Express, Parchive, PC Magazine, PC World, Peer-to-peer, Petabyte, Philosophy, Plain old telephone service, Port (computer networking), RAR (file format), Recording Industry Association of America, Reddit, Reed College, Request for Comments, Scientology and the Internet, Serdar Argic, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Social networking service, Sockpuppet (Internet), Software, Spamming, Sporgery, Sprint Corporation, Steven M. Bellovin, Steven McGeady, Talk.origins, Tebibyte, TechCrunch, Terabyte, The Register, Tim Berners-Lee, Time Warner Cable, Tom Truscott, Transport Layer Security, University of Arizona, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Oklahoma, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, Unix, Upload, Usability, Usenet Death Penalty, Usenet II, Usenet newsgroup, USENIX, UUCP, Uuencoding, Verizon Communications, Vice (magazine), Warnock's dilemma, Web browser, Wired (magazine), World Intellectual Property Organization, World Wide Web, X-No-Archive, X.25, Xxencoding, YEnc. Expand index (121 more) »

A News

A News, originally known simply as news, was the first widely distributed program for serving and reading Usenet newsgroups.

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Alex Martelli

Alex Martelli (born October 5, 1955) is an Italian computer engineer and Fellow of the Python Software Foundation.

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Alt.* hierarchy

The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically.

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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, author, and lawyer serving as the 56th and current Governor of New York, since 2011.

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AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.

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ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Astraweb

Astraweb is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Attorney General of New York

The Attorney General of New York is the chief legal officer of the State of New York and head of the New York state government's Department of Law.

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B News

B News was a Usenet news server developed at the University of California, Berkeley by Matt Glickman and Mark Horton as a replacement for A News.

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Backbone cabal

The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet.

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Backup

In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying into an archive file of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

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Base64

Base64 is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation.

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Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.

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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.

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Binary file

A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.

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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.

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Bit

The bit (a portmanteau of binary digit) is a basic unit of information used in computing and digital communications.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Bourne shell

The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell, or command-line interpreter, for computer operating systems.

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Breidbart Index

The Breidbart Index, developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant cancel index in Usenet.

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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C (programming language)

C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

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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.

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Child pornography

Child pornography is pornography that exploits children for sexual stimulation.

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Chris Lewis (Usenet)

Chris Lewis is a Canadian expert on Usenet and spam.

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Cleanfeed (Usenet spam filter)

Cleanfeed is a spam filter for use with Usenet news groups.

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Client (computing)

A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server.

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CNET

CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known as command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines).

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Comparison of online backup services

This is a comparison of online backup services.

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Comparison of Usenet newsreaders

This is a Comparison of Usenet Newsreaders.

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Computer data storage

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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Computer World

Computer World (German: Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 10 May 1981.

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Control message

Control messages are a special kind of Usenet post that are used to control news servers.

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Conversation threading

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.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Crossposting

Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple information channels; forums, mailing lists, or newsgroups.

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David Wiseman

David Wiseman (born September 11, 1981 in Pasadena, California) is an American artist and designer whose work is notable for its intricate craftsmanship and dialogue with traditional decorative arts.

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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.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Easynews

Easynews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those who are not authorized cannot.

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Eternal September

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993, the month that Internet service provider America Online began offering Usenet access to its many users, overwhelming the existing culture for online forums.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) or Questions and Answers (Q&A), are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic.

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FidoNet

Traditional FidoNet logo by John Madil FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes).

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Flaming (Internet)

Flaming is a hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the Internet, often involving the use of profanity.

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Flooding algorithm

A flooding algorithm is an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a graph.

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Fraunhofer Society

The Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., "Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research") is a German research organization with 69institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on basic science).

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Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

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Gene Spafford

Eugene Howard Spafford (born 1956), commonly known as Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.

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Geoff Collyer

Geoff Collyer is a Canadian computer scientist.

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Gibibyte

The gibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Giganews

Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider.

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Godwin's law

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Groups

Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests.

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Great Renaming

The Great Renaming was a restructuring of Usenet newsgroups that took place in 1987.

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Henry Spencer

Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast.

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Highwinds Network Group

Highwinds Network Group, Inc.

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Index term

An index term, subject term, subject heading, or descriptor, in information retrieval, is a term that captures the essence of the topic of a document.

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Input method

An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that allows any data, such as keyboard strokes or mouse movements, to be received as input.

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Intentional community

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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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.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used on the Internet and similar computer networks.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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Internet troll

In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

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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.

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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.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jargon

Jargon is a type of language that is used in a particular context and may not be well understood outside that context.

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Jim Ellis (computing)

James Tice Ellis (– June 28, 2001) was an American computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet, along with Tom Truscott.

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Kai Puolamäki

Kai Puolamäki is a Finnish physicist and Internet activist.

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Kibology

Kibology is a parody religion, named after Kibo, the central figure.

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Kill file

A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines.

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Kilo-

Kilo is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand (103).

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Legion of Net.Heroes

The Legion of Net.Heroes, or LNH, is the oldest (and perhaps the first) Usenet-based shared universe still in existence, and the name of the premiere "net.hero" team in that universe.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator, and historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating systems, Android, and Chrome OS.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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List of newsgroups

This is a partial list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history.

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List of Usenet newsreaders

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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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.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer.

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Mary Ann Horton

Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton (born November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer.

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Mega-

Mega is a unit prefix in metric systems of units denoting a factor of one million (106 or 000).

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Metadata

Metadata is "data that provides information about other data".

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Michael Hauben

Michael Frederick Hauben (May 1, 1973 – June 27, 2001) was an Internet theorist and author.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support.

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Mosaic (web browser)

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

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MSTing

MSTing, MiSTing, or riffing is a method of mocking a show in the style of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and, in particular, is a form of fan fiction in which writers mock other works by inserting humorous comments, called "riffs", into the flow of dialogue and events.

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Netizen

The term netizen is a portmanteau of the words Internet and citizen as in "citizen of the net".

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Network address

A network address is an identifier for a node or host on a telecommunications network.

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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 and posting articles by end user client applications.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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News server

A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles.

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News server operation

Among the operators and users of commercial Usenet news servers, common concerns are the continually increasing storage and network capacity requirements and their effects.

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Newsreader (Usenet)

A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet (a distributed discussion system, which groups its content into a hierarchy of subject-related newsgroups, each of which contains multiple threads or discussions).

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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.

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Otherkin

Otherkin are a subculture who socially and spiritually identify as not entirely human.

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Outlook Express

Outlook Express, formerly known as Microsoft Internet Mail and News, is a discontinued email and news client included with Internet Explorer versions 3.0 through to 6.0.

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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.

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PC Magazine

PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.

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PC World

PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Petabyte

The petabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Plain old telephone service

Plain old telephone service or plain ordinary telephone service (POTS) is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission over copper loops.

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Port (computer networking)

In computer networking, a port is an endpoint of communication in an operating system, which identifies a specific process or a type of network service running on that system.

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RAR (file format)

RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Reed College

Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Request for Comments

In information and communications technology, a Request for Comments (RFC) is a type of publication from the technology community.

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Scientology and the Internet

There are a number of disputes concerning the Church of Scientology's attempts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet, utilizing lawsuits and legal threats. In late 1994, the Church of Scientology began using various legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by L. Ron Hubbard. The Church of Scientology is often accused of barratry through the filing of SLAPP suits. The official church response is that its litigious nature is solely to protect its copyrighted works and the unpublished status of certain documents. Various critics of the Church of Scientology have characterized the organization as a confidence scam and claim that these secretive writings are proof, or allege that they contain evidence that the Church of Scientology's medical practices are illegal and fraudulent. Scientology has been convicted of fraud in the courts of several nations, although not those of the United States. Others have claimed that the Church of Scientology is abusing copyright law by launching lawsuits against outspoken critics.

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Serdar Argic

Serdar Argic (Serdar Argić, 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.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission.

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Social networking service

A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is a web application that people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

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Sockpuppet (Internet)

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception.

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Software

Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.

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Spamming

Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.

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Sporgery

Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others.

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Sprint Corporation

Sprint Corporation is an American telecommunications company that provides wireless services and is an internet service provider.

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Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security.

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Steven McGeady

Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial.

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Talk.origins

talk.origins (often capitalised to Talk.Origins or abbreviated as t.o.) is a moderated Usenet discussion forum concerning the origins of life, and evolution.

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Tebibyte

The tebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.

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Terabyte

The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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The Register

The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable (TWC) was an American cable television company.

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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.

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Transport Layer Security

Transport Layer Security (TLS) – and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is now deprecated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – are cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over a computer network.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

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University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university in Norman, Oklahoma.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario (UWO), corporately branded as Western University as of 2012 and commonly shortened to Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Upload

In computer networks, to upload is to send data to a remote system such as a server or another client so that the remote system can store a copy.

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Usability

Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object such as a tool or device.

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Usenet Death Penalty

On Usenet, the Usenet Death Penalty (or UDP) is a final penalty that may be issued against Internet service providers or single users who produce too much spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards.

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Usenet II

Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998.

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Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations using Internet.

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USENIX

The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.

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UUCP

UUCP is an abbreviation of Unix-to-Unix Copy.

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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 UC Berkeley in 1980, for encoding binary data for transmission in email systems.

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Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc., or simply Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.

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Warnock's dilemma

Warnock's dilemma, named for its originator Bryan Warnock, is the problem of interpreting a lack of response to a posting in a virtual community.

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Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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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.

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X.25

X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet switched wide area network (WAN) communication.

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Xxencoding

Xxencode is a binary-to-text encoding similar to Uuencode which uses only the alphanumeric characters, and the plus and minus signs.

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YEnc

yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages on Usenet or via e-mail.

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Binary retention time, Net news, NetNews, Netnews, News URI, Nntp URI, Rec.humor, UBackup, USENET, UseNet, Usenet backup, Usenet news, Usenet newsfeed size, Usenetter, Usernet, Web2news.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

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