Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

On 2/2/2026 12:24 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
>    I normally also object to back-dating the use of the term 'app' by
> several decades, but if you substitute 'app' by 'program' (or
> 'application', etc.), then for all intents and purposes, for the user,
> Usenet *was* a program, which read/posted articles from/to the *local*
> 'spool'. A client program, reading/posting directly from/to a remote
> news server came only much later. Remember, NetNews/Usenet *predates*
> the Internet by quite a number of years.

I disagree! Usenet is a service network, in which apps and programs like 
newsreaders can use it. Usenet itself is NOT an app nor a program.

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