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Internet FAQ Consortium
The Internet FAQ Consortium, also known as the Internet FAQ Archives, is a collection of USENET Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was ... Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQs) postings. By David Einstein, Aug 23, 1999, Forbes, "...A good example is www.faqs.org, home of the Internet FAQ Consortium. This non-profit site provides answers to all kinds of questions about newsgroups, and it generates some 4 million pageviews per month. With that kind of popularity, it probably could generate a substantial amount of advertising, but that's not an option, says Kent Landfield, one of the people who oversees the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USENET
Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980.''From Usenet to CoWebs: interacting with social information spaces'', Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, Springer (2003), , Users read and post messages (called ''articles'' or ''posts'', and collectively termed ''news'') to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that have become widely used. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.The jargon file v4.4.7 , Jargon File Archive. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
