XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 12:54:13 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/2/2026 5:08 PM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I thought UseNet was just an outsourcing/spreading of the D.A.R.P.A.   
   >> projects into the Common peoples environments!!   
   >>   
   >> D.A.R.P.A. apparently started back in Feb 1958.   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA   
   >   
   >I believe DARPA-net became internet. Usenet is a separate messaging   
   >network, speaking NNTP not HTTP, nor FTP.   
      
   But NNTP, HTTP and FTP are all protocols enabling computers to   
   communicate with each other at a distance. The Internet is a network   
   of networks, a metanetwork if you like, of computers communicating   
   with each other using those protocols.   
      
   If you draw a Venn diagram, it would show Usenet and the Internet   
   overlapping, but not identical. I would define Usenet as a collection   
   of online forums, called "newsgroups" named according to a certain   
   pattern. The technology of how people communicate using them may vary   
   -- the main means is NNTP, but other protocols may be used.   
      
      
      
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