usenet news
usenetter
Англо-русский словарь компьютерных терминов:
usenet
система телеконференций Internet. Организована как большой (содержащий более 12 тысяч конференций) иерархический каталог, узлами которого являются группы новостей по определённым предметным областям. Сообщения, присылаемые пользователями, обычно не задерживаются в сети больше пяти дней
Смотри также:
article
,
cross-posting
,
forum
,
NNTP
Синоним(ы):
NetNews
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
usenet
noun
Etymology:
probably from
Use
nix, an association of computer programmers using the operating system Unix (from
use
rs of U
nix
) +
1
net
(network)
Date:
1980
the aggregation of all the newsgroups on the Internet
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
usenet
/yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ (Or "Usenet news", from
"Users' Network") A distributed
bulletin board
system and
the people who post and read articles thereon. Originally
implemented in 1979 - 1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom
Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, and supported
mainly by
Unix
machines, it swiftly grew to become
international in scope and, before the advent of the
World-Wide Web
, probably the largest decentralised
information utility in existence.
Usenet encompasses government agencies, universities, high
schools, businesses of all sizes, and home computers of all
descriptions. In the beginning, not all Usenet hosts were on
the Internet. As of early 1993, it hosted over 1200
newsgroups ("groups" for short) and an average of 40
megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of
new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
flamage
every day. By November 1999, the number of groups
had grown to over 37,000.
To join in you originally needed a
news reader
program but
there are now several web gateways, cheifly Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/
(originally Deja News). Some
web browsers include news readers and URLs beginning
"news:" refer to Usenet newsgroups.
Network News Transfer Protocol
is a
protocol
used to
transfer news articles between a news
server
and a
news reader
. The
uucp
protocol
was sometimes used to transfer
articles between servers, though this is probably rare now
that most sites are on the
Internet
.
http://openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html
.
Notes on news
http://ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/notes.html
by Lars Magne
Ingebrigtsen
.
[Gene Spafford
, "What is Usenet?",
regular posting to news:news.announce.newusers].
(1999-12-17)
