Usenet en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈjuːz.nɛt/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).
Meanings
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(Internet) A 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| USENET | alternative | lexicographic | |
| the Usenet | canonical | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Usenetite · Usenetdom · Usenetspeak · Usenetism · UDP · Usenetizen · Usenetverse · Usenetiquette · Usenet Death Penalty · Usenetter · Useneter · Usegroup · Uselessnet · Usenetty · Usenetian · Usenetese · Usenetard
Translations (12)
fi nyysit (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · fr Usenet (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · pl Usenet (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · fa یوزنت (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · de Usenet (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · fi Usenet (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · ar يُوزْنِت (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · ru Юзне́т (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · ko 유즈넷 (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · cmn 用戶網絡 /用户网络 (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · ar يُوزْنِت (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject) · ja ユーズネット (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject)