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

The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions circa 1985.

The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup as.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches.

Within hours, the name Itanic had been coined on a Usenet newsgroup, a reference to Titanic, the " unsinkable " ocean liner that sank in 1912.

* news :// comp. sys. m6809 – Usenet newsgroup for 6809 enthusiasts

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations.

Phish, along with Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and The Beatles, was one of the first bands to have a Usenet newsgroup, rec. music. phish, which launched in 1991.

* Retention ( news server ), in Usenet, the time a news server holds a newsgroup posting before deleting it as no longer relevant

By organizing the articles in a newsgroup according to threads of discussion, using headers that had long been present in Usenet articles but practically unused, a threaded newsreader would allow users to keep up with topics and discussions they were interested without having to explicitly deselect uninteresting threads.

While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, social spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.

Discussing, tracking, and analyzing urban legends is the topic of the Usenet newsgroup, alt. folklore. urban, and several web sites, most notably snopes. com.

In early January, 1990, Steve Kirkendall posted a new clone of vi, Elvis, to the Usenet newsgroup comp. os. minix, aiming for a more complete and more faithful clone of vi than Stevie.

The low-traffic Usenet newsgroup alt. xyzzy is used for test messages, to which other readers ( if there are any ) customarily respond, " Nothing happens " as a note that the test message was successfully received.

** Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp. os. minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

Gelbart was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, and also was a regular participant on the alt. tv. mash Usenet newsgroup as " Elsig ".

It grew out of the Usenet newsgroup alt. religion. kibology named after Kibo, the central figure.

* The VHDL newsgroup comp. lang. vhdl on Usenet and the web and their Frequently Asked Questions And Answers

The Usenet newsgroup alt. zines was created in 1992 by Jerod Pore and Edward Vielmetti for the discussion of zines and zine-related topics.

Jerod Pore collected articles and reviews from the print version of Factsheet Five, and with them produced Factsheet Five-Electric, one of the first zines to use the Usenet newsgroup alt. zines.

He can often be found on the Usenet newsgroup < tt > comp. lang. lisp </ tt >,

The Usenet newsgroup rec. puzzles. crosswords has a number of clueing competitions where contestants all submit clues for the same word and a judge picks the best one.

The backbone providers, the backbone cabal, were instrumental in this reorganization of Usenet since they had great influence with respect to supporting a new newsgroup.

In its early Usenet days it was centered in the newsgroups talk. bizarre and alt. slack, until the creation of alt. religion. kibology in late 1991.

The word cisgender has been used on the internet since at least 1994, when it appeared in the alt. transgendered Usenet group in a post by Dana Leland Defosse.

The popularization of the Internet in the mid-1990s brought a new surge of interest in the church, resulting in dozens of home-made, elaborately decorated web sites and two Usenet newsgroups, alt. slack and alt. binaries. slack.

The newsgroup alt. religion. scientology ( often abbreviated a. r. s or ARS ) is a Usenet newsgroup started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs of Scientology, as well as the Church of Scientology, which claims exclusive intellectual property rights thereto and is viewed by many as a dangerous cult.

alt. binaries. slack is a Usenet newsgroup created for the purpose of posting pictures, sounds, and utilities related to the Church of the SubGenius, making them available for everyone to see and hear.

As a result, the users of alt. binaries. slack pride themselves on having one of the most spam-free binaries newsgroups on Usenet.

The term originated in the Usenet newsgroup alt. sex. bondage in 1991.

This initialism stems from the now-defunct Usenet newsgroup alt. sex. fetish. robots.

Melissa was first distributed in the Usenet discussion group alt. sex.

alt. sex. stories is a Usenet newsgroup for erotic stories.

* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with " alt.

The language of preference in the " original " Usenet hierarchies, including alt.

Category: Usenet alt.

They were distributed as an e-mail newsletter and posted to alt. showbiz. gossip Usenet forum.

Use of the term on Usenet alt. rave shows earliest reference to the spelling " candee ", with alternates " kandy ", " kandi " or " candi " following later.

The earliest documented reference to the IPU was on July 7, 1990 on the Usenet discussion group alt. atheism.

* 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.

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 Usenet System, ITCA Teleconferencing Yearbook 1993, ITCA Research Committee, International Teleconferencing Association, Washington, DC.

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.