Usenet
One of the earliest information services available on the Internet, Usenet is an electronic bulletin board that allows users with common interests to exchange information. Usenet is an informal, loosely connected network of systems that exchange e-mail and news items (commonly referred to as netnews). Usenet was formed in 1979 when a few sites decided to share some software and information on topics of common interest. They agreed to contact one another and to pass the information along over dial-up telephone lines (at that time running at 1200 baud at best), using UNIX's uucp utility (UNIX-to-UNIX copy program).
The popularity of Usenet led to major changes in uucp to handle the ever-escalating volume of messages and sites. Today much ...
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