We use cookies to understand how the site is used and to improve it. You can accept them, or carry on with them switched off.
Also known as: net news, news
An older name for Usenet, common in early documentation, RFC titles, and the names of the software that carried the traffic. The word covers both the articles themselves and the machinery that moves them between sites. It survives in the news.* hierarchy and in a few standards documents, but almost nobody uses it in conversation now; Usenet won out as the everyday term.
Browse all terms in Core Usenet Concepts, or see the full Usenet glossary.