Usenet

//ˈjuːz.nɛt// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject. Internet

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Usenet. alt-of

    "Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted."

Example

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"Old-timers might argue the Internet was freest during the Usenet days."

Etymology

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

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