Usenet

English

Etymology

From USENIX, group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːz.nɛt/

Proper noun

Usenet

1. (Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.
   • 2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 November 2023:

     And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.

Derived terms

• Usegroup
• Usenetard
• Usenet Death Penalty, UDP
• Usenetdom
• Usenetese
• Usenetian
• Usenetiquette
• Usenetism
• Usenetite
• Usenetizen
• Usenetspeak
• Usenetter, Useneter
• Usenetty
• Usenetverse

 

Translations

a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject

• Arabic: يُوزْنِت m (yūznet), يُوزْنِت m (yūznit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用戶網絡／用户网络 (yònghù wǎngluò)

• Finnish: Usenet, nyysit pl (slang)
• French: Usenet (fr) m
• German: Usenet (de) n
• Japanese: ユーズネット (Yūzunetto)
• Korean: 유즈넷 (Yujeunet)
• Persian: یوزنت (yuznet)
• Russian: Юзне́т m (Juznɛ́t)

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