Site Title: All about Newsgroups
Link: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/26nwsgrp.htm
Reference: Micheal Lerner Productions (2007). All about Newsgroups. Retrieved April 21st,2007, from http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/26nwsgrp.htm
Annotation:
Newsgroups are places on the Internet where people can contribute to a discussion by leaving a message of interest. Newsgroups exist on thousands of topics and are useful for building online communities and bringing people together with similar interests. They are like an electronic notice board. There are thousands of newsgroups that cover many different topics. This website explains the definition of a newsgroup and its features as well as covering how a newsgroup works. Usenet was the first software developed to distribute news in 1979, since then newsgroups have grown to cover almost any topic that you could imagine! This site has some useful links that provide further information on things such as Usenet and UUCP. In writing this site the author has provided a general overview of newsgroups which is easy to understand, however if you were a more advanced internet user, I feel that you may require a little more depth of information than this site provides. In saying that the author has provided links following this article that provide greater detail on how to start your own newsgroup, subscribing to a newsgroup and searching for a particular group of interest.
Concepts: Asynchronicity, Threading & Public Space & Regulation
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