What is USENET?

A world-wide system of discussion groups (sometimes called the Big Eight hierarchies), with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines. Not all USENET machines are on the Internet. USENET is completely decentralized, with over 13,000 discussion areas, called newsgroups.

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Popular terms starting with letter 'U'
What is UDP?
Stands for User Datagram Protocol, one of the protocols for data transfer that is part of the TCP/IP…continue
What is Upload?
To transfer a file from your computer system to another system via a modem over telephone or cable…continue
What is URL?
An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is the address for a resource or site…continue
What is Username?
Your username, also called user ID or account name, is the same as your login name. This is the name…continue