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It discontinued Usenet operation in 2024. As of May 2017, Easynews [3] appears to be the only regularly updated and reliable way to access newsgroups through a Web browser. As of December 2024, the following text-only web-based Usenet sites also exist. All are free to access but require registration to post: Narkive (read-only) [4]
Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups. Users must have access to a news server to use a newsreader. This is a list of such newsreaders.
This is a partial list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. The Big-8 hierarchies
Usenet was designed under conditions when networks were much slower and not always available. Many sites on the original Usenet network would connect only once or twice a day to batch-transfer messages in and out. [11] This is largely because the POTS network was typically used for transfers, and phone charges were lower at night.
So for instance newsgroup rec.arts.sf.starwars.games would be in the rec.* top-level Usenet hierarchy, where the asterisk (*) is defined as a wildcard character. There were seven original major hierarchies of Usenet newsgroups, known as the "Big 7": comp.* — Discussion of computer-related topics; news.* — Discussion of Usenet itself
Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet [5]) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship.
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Pages in category "Usenet servers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A News; Astraweb; B.