Old-timers might argue the Internet was freest during the Usenet days.
Source: tatoeba (878269)
Usenet
//ˈjuːz.nɛt//
Synonyms for "usenet"
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11 translations across 9 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- يُوزْنِت name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
- يُوزْنِت name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 用戶網絡 /用户网络 name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Finnish
2 entries- Usenet name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
- nyysit name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
French
1 entries- Usenet name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
German
1 entries- Usenet name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Japanese
1 entries- ユーズネット name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Korean
1 entries- 유즈넷 name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Persian
1 entries- یوزنت name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Russian
1 entries- Юзне́т name (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I remember the Usenet days.
Source: tatoeba (12401885)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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