Usenet

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From USENIX, group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (network).

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Usenet

  1. (Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.
    • 2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time[1], →ISSN:
      And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.

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