Re: Question re newsgroup servers

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:53:49 GMT, Jeff Gaines commented

It's the oldest service on the Internet, email was spawned from it and
then the WWW appeared.

It's actually older than the Internet - it used to operate by computers
phoning each other directly, and relaying all the posts, and a post could
take a week to propagate round the world.

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