Usenet

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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

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