Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2026 20:36:11 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.linux
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:23:43 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

> If you draw a Venn diagram, it would show Usenet and the Internet
> overlapping, but not identical.

The two started entirely separately, and only started to come together
in about the latter 1990s.

The main way to propagate Usenet messages prior to that was over
dialup lines as point-to-point links, using a protocol called UUCP.