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Revision as of 04:02, 29 December 2006
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.
- rec.
- rec.games.
- rec.games.hack (obsolete)
- rec.games.roguelike.
- rec.games.
- net. (obsolete; see Great Renaming. All known versions of Hack were posted here)
- net.sources.
- net.sources.games
- net.sources.
