Difference between revisions of "Usenet"
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* rec. | * rec. | ||
** rec.games. | ** rec.games. | ||
| − | *** [[rec.games.hack]] | + | *** [[rec.games.hack]] (obsolete) |
*** rec.games.roguelike. | *** rec.games.roguelike. | ||
**** [[rec.games.roguelike.nethack]] | **** [[rec.games.roguelike.nethack]] | ||
| + | * net. (obsolete; see [[wikipedia:Great Renaming|Great Renaming]]. All known versions of [[Hack]] were posted here) | ||
| + | ** net.sources. | ||
| + | *** net.sources.games | ||
== On other wiki == | == On other wiki == | ||
Revision as of 19:33, 6 August 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.
