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Usenet was an early wide area data network, roughly contemporaneous with the early Internet. It ran over a collection of point-point telephone modem links, and used the UUCP protocol. The primary application was Netnews (a hierarchical bulletin board system), but email was also available.
External links
- Steven M. Bellovin, Netnews: The Origin Story, Annals of the History of Computing - mostly focuses on Netnews, but has some coverage of Usenet as well
