USENET

Normally in USENET you can post a message to more than one newsgroup using the "crossposting" mechanism.

Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives 2001

1994First piece of spam appears in USENET newsgroups and is quickly removed.

UFies.org: May 2003 Archives 2003

1994First piece of spam appears in USENET newsgroups and is quickly removed.

Internet Timeline - UFies.org 2003

DARPA funding gave us USENET which is a subset of the internet.

Matthew Yglesias » Robots and DARPA 2009

The name "USENET" comes from the USENIX Association.

Phrack Issue #18 (Crimson Death's Issue) 1988

Internet USENET boards were filled with what we called "newbies" wandering around and asking anyone they could find how to download pornography.

Boing Boing 2009

For every frantic Twitter user, there's another person still using ancient USENET.

Slow Tuesday Night 2010

Although there were already networks that facilitated the distribution of files across the Internet, such as IRC, Hotline, and USENET, Napster specialized exclusively in music in the form of MP3 files and presented a friendly user interface.

Death of the 8-track tape 2009

On this day in 1990 I published a series of scripts which made lists of credits (collected by a wonderful USENET group called “rec. arts.movies”) searchable.

IMDb’s 18th Birthday | /Film 2008

Hob@96: I think Paula is referring to Canter and Siegel, the lawyers who sent the first commercial spam onto USENET.

Making Light: Heads Up For Our Friends at Random House 2010