Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

On 2/2/2026 12:36 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
an "app"? I think it's a mistake. :)
> 
> A newsreader is an app (app is an abbreviation for "application
> program").
> 
> Windows 11 will have one set of apps to a\ccess Usenet, and Linux
> another.
> 
> But Usenet itself is not an app. What is it?
Usnet is a service, a 2-way messaging network! Defintely not an "app" as 
we understand today!! Newsreaders, like Thunderbird, are surely "app"s.

Read the quoted paragraph again:

"Usenet, conceived by .... University, was the first open social media 
app, established in 1980."

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