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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :   [ foldoc ]

  Usenet
       
           /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ (Or "Usenet news", from
          "Users' Network") A distributed bulletin board system and
          the people who post and read articles thereon.  Originally
          implemented in 1979 - 1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom
          Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, and supported
          mainly by Unix machines, it swiftly grew to become
          international in scope and, before the advent of the
          World-Wide Web, probably the largest decentralised
          information utility in existence.
       
          Usenet encompasses government agencies, universities, high
          schools, businesses of all sizes, and home computers of all
          descriptions.  In the beginning, not all Usenet hosts were on
          the Internet.  As of early 1993, it hosted over 1200
          newsgroups ("groups" for short) and an average of 40
          megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of
          new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
          flamage every day.  By November 1999, the number of groups
          had grown to over 37,000.
       
          To join in you originally needed a news reader program but
          there are now several web gateways such as Deja
          http://www.deja.com/)" rel="nofollow">(http://www.deja.com/).  Several web browsers include news
          readers and URLs beginning "news:" refer to Usenet
          newsgroups.
       
          Network News Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to
          transfer news articles between a news server and a news
          reader.  The uucp protocol was sometimes used to transfer
          articles between servers, though this is probably rare now
          that most sites are on the Internet.
       
          Stanford University runs a service to send news articles by
          electronic mail.  Send electronic mail to
           with "help" in the message body.
          [Still?  URL?]
       
          http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html)" rel="nofollow">(http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html).
       
          Notes on news
          http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/notes.html)" rel="nofollow">(http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/notes.html) by Lars Magne
          Ingebrigtsen .
       
          [Gene Spafford , "What is Usenet?",
          regular posting to news:news.announce.newusers].
       
          (1999-12-17)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :   [ jargon ]

  Usenet /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ n. [from `Users' Network'; the original
     spelling was USENET, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred] A
     distributed bboard (bulletin board) system supported mainly by Unix
     machines. Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim
     Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, it has swiftly
     grown to become international in scope and is now probably the largest
     decentralized information utility in existence. As of early 1996, it
     hosts over 10,000 newsgroups and an average of over 500 megabytes (the
     equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of new technical articles,
     news, discussion, chatter, and flamage every day (and that leaves out
     the graphics...).
  
     By the year the Internet hit the mainstream (1994) the original UUCP
     transport for Usenet was fading out of use (see UUCPNET) - almost all
     Usenet connections were over Internet links. A lot of newbies and
     journalists began to refer to "Internet newsgroups" as though Usenet was
     and always had been just another Internet service. This ignorance
     greatly annoys experienced Usenetters.
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :   [ vera ]

  USENET
       USErs' NETwork (Internet)
       
       

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Usenet
     n.
     (lb en Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system
  consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Usenet
     n.
     (lb en Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system
  consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Usenet
     n.
     (lb en Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system
  consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Usenet
     n.
     (lb en Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system
  consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.

From German - English Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:deu-eng ]

  Usenet /ˈuːzənət/ 
  Usenet 
           Note: user + network, Internet discussion system
           Note: User + Network, System aus Onlinediskussionsforen

From Deutsch-français FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:deu-fra ]

  Usenet /ˈjuːznɛt/ 
  usenet
  Informatik, Technik: weltweites, elektronisches Netzwerk, das Diskussionsforen (Newsgroups) aller Art bereitstellt und an dem grundsätzlich jeder teilnehmen kann

From Deutsch-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:deu-spa ]

  Usenet /ˈjuːznɛt/ 
  usenet
  Informatik, Technik: weltweites, elektronisches Netzwerk, das Diskussionsforen (Newsgroups) aller Art bereitstellt und an dem grundsätzlich jeder teilnehmen kann

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Usenet /jˈuːzənˌɛt/
  اليوزنت

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  usenet /jˈuːzənˌɛt/
  usenet

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  Usenet /jˈuːzənˌɛt/
  Usenet 
           Note: User + Network, System aus Onlinediskussionsforen
           Note: user + network, Internet discussion system

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  Usenet //ˈjuːz.nɛt// 
  Usenet, nyysit
  a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  USENET /jˈuːzənˌɛt/
  mrežna usluga koja omogućuje pristup podatcima int

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  Usenet //ˈjuːz.nɛt// 
  ユーズネット
  a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject

From IPA:de :   [ IPA:de ]

  

/ˈʔuːzənət/

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈjuzˌnɛt/

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

  USENET
     
  (在INTERNET上,以讨论群作为分类依据的一种全球讯息交换网络系统)

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