Category: -Usenet

With the vast popularity in Internet services, the outcome has been a wide network of often unsecured data networks. The result has been a host of private user networks that has cropped up. The Usenet is one such popular media downloading website that has been around for a while now. The Usenet community has been […]

Usenet was used in the pre-web years as a medium to connect with different people. It was two students – Tom Truscott & Jlim Ellis – of Duke University that first came up with the idea about Usenet.

The Alt. Hierarchy was a major transformation that enabled a better distribution chain in the newsgroup postings. The alt. hierarchy, coined and developed by Brian Reid was a revolutionary transformation of the Great Renaming of 1987.

Several offbeat groups have come up at different points in time, but the three main giants in the online communication platform scene remain the peer-to-peer file-sharing platforms: Usenet, Google Groups, and Torrent.

Usenet, a system designed for worldwide communication, has a rich history, going back to 40 years. It was used as a discussion platform by like minded people and existed before what we know today as message boards.

Unlike torrents, Usenet allows its users to have complete privacy for the activities carried out through the service provider. It is a completely decentralized network that makes general internet service providers difficult to track the activity.