It began in 1980 as a means of communications between two machines’ users, one at the University of North Carolina, the other at nearby Duke University. USENET newsgroups were invented to capture the flavours of both the ARPAnet-style mailing lists as well as bulletin board services (BBS’s).
Ni alianza mwaka 1980 kama njia ya mawasiliano kati ya mbili watumiaji mashine ‘, moja katika Chuo Kikuu cha North Carolina, wengine jirani Duke University. newsgroups Usenet walikuwa zuliwa kukamata ladha ya orodha zote mbili ARPANET-style ya barua pepe kama vile huduma ubao wa matangazo (BBS ya).