The concept of a new free encyclopedia began with the Interpedia proposal on Usenet in 1993, which outlined an Internet-based online encyclopedia to which anyone could submit content and that would be freely accessible.

The Usenet newsgroup alt. memetics started in 1993 with peak posting years in the mid to late 1990s.

* On Usenet, it is said that September 1993 ( Eternal September ) never ended.

The project originated in discussions on Usenet in comp. os. linux in June 1993.

By the third issue in the fall of 1993 the " Net Surf " column began listing interesting FTP sites, Usenet newsgroups, and email addresses, at a time when the numbers of these things were small and this information was still extremely novel to the public.

Another instance of the phrase appeared on Usenet in April 1993 in reference to The Black Dog's album Bytes.

In November, 1993, discussions moved to a dedicated mailing list, supplemented later by Usenet newsgroup < tt > comp. infosystems. interpedia </ tt >.

Some early uses of the term include a post to the Usenet newsgroup austin. public-net in 1993

PGN was devised around 1993, by Steven J. Edwards, and was first popularized via the Usenet newsgroup rec. games. chess.

Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation ( ARMM ) was a program developed by Richard Depew in 1993 to aid in the control of Usenet abuse.

An October 1993 survey by Brian Reid reported an estimated worldwide readership for the < tt > alt. sex </ tt > newsgroup of 3. 3 million, that being 8 % of the total Usenet readership, with 67 % of all Usenet " nodes " ( news servers users log into to access the system ) carrying the group.

In Usenet and mailing-list discussions, one can find usages of " GNU / Linux " as early as 1992 and of " GNU + Linux " as early as 1993.

Eternal September ( also September that never ended ) is the period beginning September 1993, a date from which it is believed by some that an endless influx of new users ( newbies ) has degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.

Around 1993, the online services such as America Online, CompuServe and Demon Internet began offering Usenet access to its tens of thousands, and later millions, of users.

The Buddhabrot rendering technique was discovered and later described in a 1993 Usenet post to sci. fractals by Melinda Green.

References to a Barney " Jihad " were found on Barney-related Usenet newsgroups as early as 1993.

In 1993, he began contributing to the Usenet newsgroup alt. sex. movies, where he met Dan Abend.

The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups, started in March 1995 by Steve Madere in Austin, Texas.

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

" In Usenet group ( Music Library Association ), January 26, 2002.

* 1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

* A. s. h, abbreviation for Alt. suicide. holiday, a Usenet newsgroup

Some even provided gateways, such as UFGATE, by which members could send / receive e-mail to / from the Internet via UUCP, and many FidoNet discussion groups were shared via Usenet.

The satellite service provided access to FidoNet and Usenet newsgroups in large volumes at a reasonable fee.

By connecting a small dish & receiver, a constant downstream of thousands of FidoNet and Usenet newsgroups could be received.

FidoNet is still in use today, though in a much smaller form, and many Echomail groups are still shared with Usenet via FidoNet to Usenet gateways.

Widespread abuse of Usenet with spam and pornography has led to many of these FidoNet gateways to cease operation completely.

The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

The administrators of these servers gained sufficient influence in the otherwise anarchic Usenet community to be able to push through controversial changes, for instance the Great Renaming of Usenet newsgroups during the 1980s.

As Usenet has few technologically or legally enforced hierarchies, just about the only ones that formed were social hierarchies.

This belief became a model for various conspiracy theories about various Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over Usenet or the Internet.

The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet by Travaglia, with some being reprinted in Datamation.

Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.

Distributions on the CPAN are divided into 24 broad chapters based on their purpose, such as Internationalization and Locale ; Archiving, Compression, And Conversion ; and Mail and Usenet News.

A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

* Casimir effect description from University of California, Riverside's version of the Usenet physics FAQ.

* Synergy Teleconferencing System, a computer bulletin board operating system

In 1989, a DDial-like clone, Synergy Teleconferencing System AKA STS was developed for the IBM PC, but by this time it was outpaced by alternatives like GEnie.

Synergy Teleconferencing System ( STS ) was a PC-based online chat server popular in the 80's and 90s. It arose as a replacement for the outdated Diversi-Dial system ( DDial ).

Synergy Teleconferencing System also incorporated other interesting features that predated similar ones offered by larger ISPs ( Internet Service Providers ); One of which ( introduced early on ) was the ability to inform a user that had call waiting on their phone line that they had an incoming call and allow them the opportunity to answer the call and then return to their online session.