Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 12:54:13 +0800, "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.

But NNTP, HTTP and FTP are all protocols enabling computers to
communicate with each other at a distance. The Internet is a network
of networks, a metanetwork if you like, of computers communicating
with each other using those protocols.

If you draw a Venn diagram, it would show Usenet and the Internet
overlapping, but not identical. I would define Usenet as a collection
of online forums, called "newsgroups" named according to a certain
pattern. The technology of how people communicate using them may vary
-- the main means is NNTP, but other protocols may be used.



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