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Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court O...
To be exact, Usenet was already there before the Internet.
aes256
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To be correct, Usenet was there before the World Wide Web, not the Internet.
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To be even more correct, Usenet was, in fact, there before the Internet. It predates TCP/IP by two years, and originally ran over dialup UUCP connections.
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