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From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2026-02-02 05:36, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 22:54:39 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:
>> On 2/1/2026 9:33 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Usenet, conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979 at the
>>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, was
>>> the first open social media app, established in 1980."
>>>
>>> So I guess that settles it once and for all! :-)
>>
>>
>> "social media app"? Usenet was an "app"? I think it's a mistake. :)
>
> A newsreader is an app (app is an abbreviation for "application
> program").
>
> Windows 11 will have one set of apps to a\ccess Usenet, and Linux
> another.
>
> But Usenet itself is not an app. What is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Usenet
Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/),[1] a portmanteau of User's Network,[1] is a
worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was
developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up
network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in
1979, and it was established in 1980.[2] Users read and post messages
(called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more
topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board
system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet
forums that were developed after the introduction of the World Wide Web.
Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are
stored on the server sequentially.[3][4]
A major difference between a BBS or web message board and Usenet is the
absence of a central server and dedicated administrator or hosting
provider. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing set
of news servers that store and forward messages to one another via "news
feeds". Individual users may read messages from and post to a local (or
simply preferred) news server, which can be operated by anyone, and
those posts will automatically be forwarded to any other news servers
peered with the local one, while the local server will receive any news
its peers have that it currently lacks. This results in the automatic
proliferation of content posted by any user on any server to any other
user subscribed to the same newsgroups on other servers.
As with BBSes and message boards, individual news servers or service
providers are under no obligation to carry any specific content, and may
refuse to do so for many reasons: a news server might attempt to control
the spread of spam by refusing to accept or forward any posts that
trigger spam filters, or a server without high-capacity data storage may
refuse to carry any newsgroups used primarily for file sharing, limiting
itself to discussion-oriented groups. However, unlike BBSes and web
forums, the dispersed nature of Usenet usually permits users who are
interested in receiving some content to access it simply by choosing to
connect to news servers that carry the feeds they want.
Usenet is culturally and historically significant in the networked
world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized
concepts and terms such as "FAQ", "flame", "sockpuppet", and "spam".[5]
In the early 1990s, shortly before access to the Internet became
commonly affordable, Usenet connections via FidoNet's dial-up BBS
networks made long-distance or worldwide discussions and other
communication widespread.[6]
The name Usenet comes from the term "users' network".[3] The first
Usenet group was NET.general, which quickly became net.general.[7] The
first commercial spam on Usenet was from immigration attorneys Canter
and Siegel advertising green card services.[7]
On the Internet, Usenet is transported via the Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP) on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port 119 for
standard, unprotected connections, and on TCP port 563 for Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted connections.
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