"Usenet" meaning in All languages combined

See Usenet on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈjuːz.nɛt/
Etymology: From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”). Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Usenet
  1. (Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject. Wikipedia link: Usenet Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet, Usenet Translations (a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject): يُوزْنِت (yūznet) [masculine] (Arabic), يُوزْنِت (yūznit) [masculine] (Arabic), 用戶網絡 /用户网络 (yònghù wǎngluò) (Chinese Mandarin), Usenet (Finnish), nyysit [plural, slang] (Finnish), Usenet [masculine] (French), Usenet [neuter] (German), ユーズネット (Yūzunetto) (Japanese), 유즈넷 (Yujeunet) (Korean), یوزنت (yuznet) (Persian), Юзне́т (Juznɛ́t) [masculine] (Russian)
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          "word": "Usenet Death Penalty"
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        {
          "word": "Usenetiquette"
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          "word": "Usenetism"
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          "word": "Usenetspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "Usenetter"
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          "ref": "2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-11-09:",
          "text": "And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.",
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          "roman": "yūznet",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
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          ],
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          "word": "يُوزْنِت"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yònghù wǎngluò",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
          "word": "用戶網絡 /用户网络"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
          "word": "Usenet"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "Yūzunetto",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
          "word": "ユーズネット"
        },
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "Yujeunet",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "yuznet",
          "sense": "a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject",
          "word": "یوزنت"
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