What Is A Newsgroup Web Archive A Newsgroup Web Archive is a collection of all stored messages and articles that can be accessed with a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Opera. Without a newsgroup archive, a Usenet Service wouldn’t last very long since its existence relies solely on the archive [...]

Brief History Of Usenet Newsreaders In 1980′s, the World was blessed with an exciting new means to communicate. This is when Usenet was created by two young and smart Duke Graduates named Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott. This new means of communicating server to server using the NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) was designed for [...]

A Usenet newsgroup is a part of the Usenet system where, millions of users residing in many different regions around the World post messages. The term “newsgroup” could be quite misleading, as it (Usenet Newsgroups) is basically a discussion group, or binary group containing images, computer programs, video and audio files. Technically speaking, on the [...]

What are Newsgroups Newsgroups are a unique media for information exchange. Ever since the Usenet network was introduced more than three decades ago, it has grown steadily and has become a very attractive place for discussions and file sharing. Newsgroups can be generally divided in two categories – text and binary. The text groups are [...]

What Is A Newsgroup Message? A newsgroup message is a term that refers to the content of a newsgroup article, or post. There are many names for that entity but newsgroup message is one that is commonly used among participants in the Usenet community. What Do Newsgroup Messages Contain? A newsgroup message can be either [...]

What is a Newsgroup Web Gateway? The concept is simple; a newsgroup Web gateway is just an access point to the Usenet newsgroups through a web browser. A web browser, of course, is your every day tool that you use to surf the Internet. A couple examples of free Internet browsers that everyone can download [...]

Why Do You Need to Join Newsgroups in Usenet? Joining various newsgroups in Usenet sounds like it may be more complicated that it actually is. Unlike other online discussion groups and forums, where you actually have to create a member profile and tell everyone else who you are, in Usenet, it is much simpler, easier, [...]

Viewing Newsgroups A newsgroup list can be viewed in a few different ways. It can be viewed with an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, MSN, or Safari. You can also view the newsgroup list with a 3rd party program like a newsreader or some type of binary grabber. Most newsreaders [...]

What is a Public Server? Public Servers are servers that allow the general public access to Usenet and can post articles for free. There are many sites that list these public servers. You can read the articles off of these sites or through a newsreader (a program to help find and organize newsgroups and servers). [...]

Early Days of Usenet Let us start from the beginning shall we? What is Usenet? Usenet is the set of machines that exchange articles tagged with one or more universally-recognized labels, called newsgroups. As for administration of Usenet only the website that Usenet is coming through can be administered. Every administer controls his own site. [...]