USENET

USENET or the USENET

1. Alternative letter-case form of Usenet.
   • 1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to USENET Newsgroups, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 39:

     Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.

   • 2000 October 12, Stuart Millington, “argy bargy”, in freeserve.webspace.authoring‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Back when I first started using USENET, you couldn't use it unless you were 18+ : no dial-up accounts then, only students, professors and corporate types. The invasion of the dial-up accounts in the 90's and the comparisons with the new terms at Uni's/Colleges - forming the basis of "the never ending September" phrase :-(

   • 2001 March 23, Julia L. Wilkinson, quoting Robert Seidman, “[An Awesome Tool; A New Way of Life] Benefits of USENET Bulletin Boards and the Internet Community”, in My Life at AOL, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 124:

     One man I exchanged e-mail with, an engineer for Ford, said "I'd personally be LOST without USENET. Not so much the alt groups (although I DO lurk in several groups there) as the comp.* hierarchy. I've turned down jobs where I couldn't get unrestricted Net-access. Comp.unix.* and comp.lang.* have saved many a project for me. […]"

   • 2002 July 10, Patrick James, “Atheism wins another one!!”, in alt.folklore.science‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 20 May 2022:

     To this end, Jabby attempts to xpost across USENET, telling rape victims that Evolution says that 'rape is good', telling depressed teenagers that suicide is good, telling war refugees that the fact that they got hammered shows that they are Not Fit, etc. Jabby also wants to create the Manpanzee, a human-chimp xbreed.

   • 2004 June 8, bmo, “Well, it seems to be abating.”, in alt.rhode_island‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     1. The FAQ points out that USENET is not what it used to be before the Never Ending September. Third party cancelling used to be sternly looked down upon. Spam, floods, gibberish, have changed the scene.

   • 2006 March 18, progea@hotmail.com, “OT: Queen Last Night in Toronto”, in rec.music.progressive‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 6 December 2025:

     We actually had seats in the last two rows at the third level, so we didn't annoy anybody, or else we would have been told. We had enough room, space, we enjoyed it and we were ok. Not any idiot who spits hatred all over the USENET, like some of you guys, sings well, unannoyingly.

   • 2007 June 8, stan, “Re: FAQ says no attachments - time to change ?”, in comp.lang.c+‎^[5] (Usenet):

     You seem to be missing the point that you have failed to convince anyone that what you propose IS an improvement. As you already mentioned, change != progress/improvement. USENET has been around awhile now and the accepted rules are pretty much the result of eliminating things thta didn't work well.

   • 2008, Pinku-Sensei, “Anonymous as a challenge for USENET and an award for Jonah fishing (was Re: Tom Newton and Xena Warrior Princess)”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

     This was what happened when the AOLers, WebTVers, and Google Groupers showed up during the Endless September. We don't need to go through that again! Otherwise, instead of ending up with ex-webbies who have adapted to USENET, USENET might be converted into a vast web-board/social-networking site/blog by webbies […]

   • 2023 December 3, Julieta Shem, “USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix”, in comp.misc‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     So, anyway, I think the USENET should not be a place for lay or young or regular people. It should be the place for the type of people who created it and populated it --- before eternal September, say, lol.