October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
744 pages
17h 10m
English
The history of Google Groups starts with Usenet. Predating the World Wide Web—but still using the Internet’s underlying infrastructure—Usenet is a collection of more than 30,000 online discussion groups, organized by topic. Usenet ties into Google via Google Groups, which functions as a newsreader for Usenet newsgroups and an archive of historical newsgroup postings—as well as a host of thousands of user-created (non-Usenet) discussion groups.
Usenet is a network that piggybacks on the larger Internet. In fact, it was one of the first components of the Internet, predating the Web and the so-called public Internet. The Usenet network is designed to host and convey messages from users ...