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16 hours ago · The Internet (or internet) [ a ] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [ b ] to communicate between networks and devices.
2 days ago · Usenet, conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, was the first open social media app, established in 1980. A bulletin board system menu, featuring opinion polls and a "Who's been on today?"
2 days ago · E-mail and chat programs debuted in the early 1970s, but persistent communities did not surface until the creation of the discussion group network USENET in 1979. USENET allowed users to post and receive messages within subject areas called newsgroups.
2 days ago · 2channel (Japanese: 2ちゃんねる, Hepburn: ni channeru), also known as 2ch, [5] Channel 2, [6][7] and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, [8] was an anonymous Japanese textboard [b] founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura.
3 days ago · Resource or file sharing has been an important activity on computer networks from well before the Internet was established and was supported in a variety of ways including bulletin board systems (1978), Usenet (1980), Kermit (1981), and many others.
2 days ago · EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major American performing art awards. [1][2] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording, film, and Broadway theatre. [3] .
2 days ago · Since the Usenet groups of the early 1980s—almost a decade before the World Wide Web—queer people have used online communities to meet one another and make sense of shared experiences . In the 2000s, Gray [ 57 ] found online forums like PlanetOut and personal websites were used by queer youth to support their identity work.
