Usenet

alternative USENET

1. InternetA world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.

   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.

   2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2023

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1. informalintransitiveuncommonTo participate in Usenet.

   Tombstones of those who lived, useneted,^([sic]) and died.

   2022 May 19, Clutterfreak, “Our Virtual Cemetery Epitaphs :-)”, in sci.physics (Usenet)

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   Please note this wasn't me[a]nt personally, as I didn't visit your site, beacause^([sic]) I was Usenetting offline.

   2000 January 5, Mark IJbema, “Blinking text with color change.”, in alt.html (Usenet)

   I've been Usenetting for twelve years, and I prefer my text to insert BEFORE.

   2003 March 5, Kalera, “X-News settings (not pregnancy related)”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet)

   My earliest "provable" post is dated Mar 5 1991, but I was Usenetting back before the great re-organisation in 1985, when all was "net.*", but I can't prove it, read only access at uni, 1983...

   2006 July 3, Gary R. Schmidt, “melb.general”, in melb.general (Usenet)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Usenet.

   Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.

   1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to USENET Newsgroups, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 39

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   Back when I first started using USENET, you couldn't use it unless you were 18+ : no dial-up accounts then, only students, professors and corporate types. The invasion of the dial-up accounts in the 90's and the comparisons with the new terms at Uni's/Colleges - forming the basis of "the never ending September" phrase :-(

   2000 October 12, Stuart Millington, “argy bargy”, in freeserve.webspace.authoring (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

   One man I exchanged e-mail with, an engineer for Ford, said "I'd personally be LOST without USENET. Not so much the alt groups (although I DO lurk in several groups there) as the comp.* hierarchy. I've turned down jobs where I couldn't get unrestricted Net-access. Comp.unix.* and comp.lang.* have saved many a project for me.[…]"

   2001 March 23, Julia L. Wilkinson, quoting Robert Seidman, “[An Awesome Tool; A New Way of Life] Benefits of USENET Bulletin Boards and the Internet Community”, in My Life at AOL, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 124

   To this end, Jabby attempts to xpost across USENET, telling rape victims that Evolution says that 'rape is good', telling depressed teenagers that suicide is good, telling war refugees that the fact that they got hammered shows that they are Not Fit, etc. Jabby also wants to create the Manpanzee, a human-chimp xbreed.

   2002 July 10, Patrick James, “Atheism wins another one!!”, in alt.folklore.science (Usenet), retrieved 20 May 2022

   1. The FAQ points out that USENET is not what it used to be before the Never Ending September. Third party cancelling used to be sternly looked down upon. Spam, floods, gibberish, have changed the scene.

   2004 June 8, bmo, “Well, it seems to be abating.”, in alt.rhode_island (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

   We actually had seats in the last two rows at the third level, so we didn't annoy anybody, or else we would have been told. We had enough room, space, we enjoyed it and we were ok. Not any idiot who spits hatred all over the USENET, like some of you guys, sings well, unannoyingly.

   2006 March 18, progea@hotmail.com, “OT: Queen Last Night in Toronto”, in rec.music.progressive (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Usenet.

   Well, I've been gone a looooooong while, so it might be my delivery. I haven't USENETed in a long time.

   2004 February 29, Joel, “Something I Never Thought I'd Say......”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet)

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   Is this the same guy who was USENETting 6 whole months before Damick? If so, that's cool. Just wondering.

   1996 April 22, Ryan Younce, “Hm.”, in rec.arts.startrek.misc (Usenet)

   I've been USENETting as long as Wednesday (Why I remember when she was knee high to a womp-rat) but I've only been quoted by some obscure Canadian newspaper about ALT.CUDDLE of all things. EEEEEYUCH! And that was YEARS ago.

   1996 November 9, Larry Suter, “I'm A Traitor To The USENET Cause”, in alt.fan.wednesday (Usenet)