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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:23:43 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > If you draw a Venn diagram, it would show Usenet and the Internet   
   > overlapping, but not identical.   
      
   The two started entirely separately, and only started to come together   
   in about the latter 1990s.   
      
   The main way to propagate Usenet messages prior to that was over   
   dialup lines as point-to-point links, using a protocol called UUCP.   
      
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