View source for Netnews

'''Netnews''' was a hierarchical [[bulletin board]] system, which ran on the [[UUCP]] [[protocol]], over [[Usenet]] (an early [[wide area network|wide area]] [[data network]], roughly contemporaneous with the early [[Internet]]). It also later ran over the Internet, using the [[Network News Transfer Protocol]].

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==See also==

* [[Netnews archive]]
* [[A news]]

==External links==

*  Steven M. Bellovin, [https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf ''Netnews: The Origin Story''], [[Annals of the History of Computing]]
* Ronda Hauben, [https://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/book-pdf/CHAPTER%202.pdf The Evolution of Usenet: the Poor Man’s ARPANET] - actually about Netnews, but otherwise good
* [https://groups.google.com/recent Google Groups] - Google's very large, fairly complete archive of Netnews posts
** [https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538 Google Groups ending support for Usenet] - "Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet [sic - jnc] posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable."
** [https://groups.google.com/g/net.general/c/yJn8WHlzc7U/m/lPyVdYqCXyAJ newsgroup fa, net, etc.] - reputed to be the oldest Netnews post still accessible
* [https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical Usenet Historical Collection] - "This historical collection of Usenet [sic - jnc] spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor."
* [https://www.usenetarchives.com/ Usenet Archives]
* [https://www.usenet-rewind.com/ Usenet-Rewind] - "Search Usenet newsgroup archives — text posts from 1981 to present." [again confuses Usenet and Netnews]
* [https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/ The geeks who saved Usenet] - discusses the creation of the publicly-accessible archives
* [https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet-how-the-original-social-media-platform-came-to-be/ The rise and fall of Usenet] - "How the original social media platform came to be"
* [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/usenet-coup/ The Usenet coup: how the USSR discovered the internet in 1991] - One notable historical event
** [http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/relcom.pdf Wide-Area Collaboration] - contemporary coverage

[[Category: Networking Applications]]