{"id":41071,"date":"2023-09-05T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41071"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:01:10","slug":"usenet-plots-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/usenet-plots-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"USENET plots comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">USENET, the original pre-World Wide Web social network, is making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">USENET, also known as NetNews, consists of countless text-only discussion forums known as &#8220;newsgroups,&#8221; hosted on servers worldwide. While the original developers shuttered their instance in 2010, numerous servers continue to operate, offering free access and a variety of client apps for easy navigation.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are signs of growth in the network. Although USENET is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network, the Big-8 board is the closest thing it has to a central governing authority. The board has been busy in recent years, deleting old newsgroups, adding new ones, and revamping the website.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">USENET is older than the web and works more like email. Servers carry a list of newsgroups and sync messages with each other. To get online users have to get an account on a USENET server, install a client, and subscribe to the groups they\u2019re interested in.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">There are many different USENET clients available, including Thunderbird, Eternal September, and Google Groups. The best client for users will depend on their needs and preferences.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/08\/30\/usenet_revival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheRegister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USENET, the original pre-World Wide Web social network, is making a comeback. USENET, also known as NetNews, consists of countless text-only discussion forums known as &#8220;newsgroups,&#8221; hosted on servers worldwide. While the original developers shuttered their instance in 2010, numerous servers continue to operate, offering free access and a variety of client apps for easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-41071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41073,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41071\/revisions\/41073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}