Sentences with phrase «in usenet»

But even as we say good - bye, I see attributes in Usenet that are still somewhat unique.

Lawyers who need to track when a company, Web site, product or name is discussed in Usenet newsgroups have a new tool they can use.

I once (long ago in my usenet days) had a simple explanation of my own for this which, has also been shot down, so I won't venture an alternative.

«There's room in Usenet to do business and commerce, and to also provide the «parks» and freedom from advertising that we all like sometime.

And, it detailed the Senator's previous means of online outreach to his constituents, including a network of dial up bulletin boards, ftp and gopher servers, and postings in Usenet newsgroups.

I've been helping site build awareness and earn links since before Google existed, but thanks to Google's purchase of DejaNews, you can still see evidence of my work in usenet newsgroups as far back as 1995.

Not exact matches

According to Whitney Phillips, a New York University lecturer, Usenet users first used «the word «troll» to describe someone who deliberately disrupted online discussions in order to stir up controversy.»

A Usenet chain letter circulated in the following days, asking Internet users to be on the lookout for the vehicle.

Usenet groups broke down by topic, with a characteristic naming convention that set off subtopics by dots, and they could spin off in interesting directions, as in the legendary alt.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

To get online in those days you usually had to have an academic, corporate, or military connection, so the Usenet population was mostly adult and educated.

The next layers of code built on top of that base, including Usenet, were created mostly in the countercultural climate of the 1970s and 1980s, and particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Silicon Valley.

People who regularly participate in the newsgroups worry that if enough companies begin spamming, the Usenet's essential quality as an unregulated source of ideas and opinions will be destroyed.

After a barrage of protests, electronic «mail bombs» that clogged its e-mail box, telephone threats, and the cancellation of two Internet accounts, Canter & Siegel agreed late last month to refrain from further mass postings on Usenet discussion groups «until the issue is resolved», according to Martha Siegel, a partner in the firm.

It is published bi-monthly, and you can browse through it in comfort before committing yourself to the typical Web wait or huge Usenet download.

Starting in 1993, the year I «went public» on the Usenet newsgroups, I began seeing between 220 and 250 theatrical releases per year.

It didn't take long before he'd figured out the best way to connect with other like - minded souls despite being in the remote reaches of New Zealand: Usenet.

they don't use their own tools like the build in watermark, or the notice and takedown, I think that when they just sue a owner who's watermarked book is shown up on usenet, they would scare a lot of people who now illegal upload their books.

Messages posted to Usenet, forums, Twitter, Facebook and message boards that are off - topic (unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated newsgroups, posted in excessive volume, or posted against forum / message board rules.

Way back when, on Usenet, there was the phenomenon of September, when the freshmen in college would experience the joys of posting on Usenet.

That's too much work for too little gain when I can hop over to usenet or Rapidshare and get any comic ever in about five seconds.

Lousy Puppy Ads on Usenet - what you write in a puppy advertisement reveals much about what you know about breeding.

After all, blog - like things are hardly new — USENET discussion groups started in the mid-1980s, and some have actually been quite productive.

I acknowledged that — still do, «ask a reference librarian» is always good advice — but I elaborated on my favorite tool, Usenet: find the relevant newsgroups, and ask a clear, well phrased, and interesting question, catch the eye of someone who knew something not findable online, and tickle her or his fancy sufficiently that the answer would trickle down from the brain to the fingers through the keyboard and become findable thereafter, by searching in News.

But the word «denialist» was first cast about on the usenet group sci.environment in the 90s in the climate context.

There is a thread on a new google group started very recently about coupling economic and climate models, you may be interested in it: http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange This group is intended as an alternative to the usenet forums that have been overrun by trolls.

Back in the prehistoric days of usenet, any newsgroup worth its salt had an FAQ in which newbies were advised to silently lurk in order to get the lay of the land, so to speak, prior to engaging their keyboards.

There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made the thread in which the comment was posted is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

Begun in 1979, Usenet was a collection of discussion groups — or, newsgroups, as they were known — that, as Wikipedia says, «can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between e-mail and web forums» but possessing considerable technological sophistication.

«Flame wars» (aka «flames») in the open - to - all - comers portions of USENET were legendary.

One of the brilliant features of Usenet was that you could nest groups within groups, by adding modifiers in subsequent places.

In case you feel like browsing, here's a list of all the Usenet groups, or at least the 1,027 first position names.

In the early (usenet) days, this same kind of robust discussion, then referred to as «flamefests», was broadly considered unworthy of suit.

In the early 1990s, Usenet was obscure and inaccessible enough that the only participants were tech - savvy mature adults.

Recognizing the connective social power of the Internet from his time spent on BBSs in the 1980s and Usenet in the early 1990s, he started the first large - scale online mental health self - help support community on the web in 1996.