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Web forums are one of the many different technologies available on web pages. These forums allow users to post questions, get replies and to have free-flowing conversations. Web forums tend to be centered on a relatively narrow topic and, in many cases, are directly tied to a particular website. Usenet is a technology that exists […]

Once Usenet became available to the general public in the 1980s, the amount of discussions increased very rapidly. Because of the broad number of topics being discussed, there needed to be some sort of organizational scheme. Today, that scheme is based on what is called a hierarchy. For any Usenet group, the hierarchy is denoted […]

There are quite a few newsgroups on Usenet where experts routinely post on the topic at hand. By and large, you’ll find most of these newsgroups within the Big 8, the most established of hierarchies. These hierarchies include comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc and talk. Within each of these hierarchies, there are a […]

Usenet is a huge library of information. Like all libraries, it needs a card catalog. In the case of Usenet, the catalog is a system of hierarchies that identify a newsgroup’s subject matter very specifically. When you’re using the system, it’s very important that your topics relate to the subject of the newsgroup. This is […]

Newsgroup hierarchies make it easy to make sense out of all the different options on Usenet. They allow you to narrow down the subject of the newsgroup to the extent that it’s generally pretty obvious what posts would be relevant to the topic at hand and which would not. There are more laid-back places on […]