Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

Mr. Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/2/2026 5:08 PM, Daniel70 wrote:
> >
> > I thought UseNet was just an outsourcing/spreading of the D.A.R.P.A.
> > projects into the Common peoples environments!!
> > 
> > D.A.R.P.A. apparently started back in Feb 1958.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
> 
> I believe DARPA-net became internet. Usenet is a separate messaging 
> network, speaking NNTP not HTTP, nor FTP.

  Now - and since quite some time -, Usenet is indeed mostly using NNTP,
but as I mentioned, Usenet predates internet and hence NNTP. For quite
some time it used UUCP and other transport methods. For example, we used
RFA (Remote File Access) over a (non-TCP/IP) Ethernet network and UUCP
over an X.25 network. (And I used SOUP! :-)) And it's *still* perfectly
possible to use FTP, UUCP, etc. between peers. After all, Usenet is just
about sending plain-text files from one place to another.