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Usenet Era

Usenet is older than the World Wide Web and quite possibly bigger. It’s hard to measure their relative sizes because the Web consists of pages with text and pictures and Usenet consists of posted messages. Usenet is more closely related to e-mail, which is why many e-mail programs (such as Outlook Express) read public Usenet messages as well as private e-mail messages.

Usenet is the original bulletin board system of the Internet. You’re probably familiar with some type of online message board. If you use AOL, you’ve most likely seen or used AOL’s private message board system. If a favorite Web site includes a discussion forum, you’ve probably read or posted messages in that format. Both examples are bulletin boards, but neither is Usenet. The crucial difference lies in back-end technicalities that are unimportant here.