Usenet

Usenet is one of the oldest parts of the Internet.

It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups". Servers propogate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion. Clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups.

Access to Usenet is tolled. Many participants are stuck using http://groups.google.com to read and post.

Usenet hierarchy

• comp.
  • comp.sources.
    • comp.sources.games
• rec.
  • rec.games.
    • rec.games.hack (obsolete)
    • rec.games.roguelike.
      • rec.games.roguelike.nethack
• net. (obsolete; see Great Renaming. All known versions of Hack were posted here)
  • net.sources.
    • net.sources.games

On other wiki

• Meatball:UseNet