The birth of the alt.* hierarchy is tied to a drastic transformation of the Usenet, the Great Renaming of 1987. The "backbone carriers", or the backbone cabal as they have been referred to by some use ...
Differences from acronyms An acronym is a word derived from the initial letters of the words of a phrase: For example, the word radar comes from "Radio Detection and Ranging".By contrast, a backronym ...
Differences from acronyms An acronym is a word derived from the initial letters of the words of a phrase: For example, the word radar comes from "Radio Detection and Ranging".By contrast, a backronym ...
Marijuana is the most popular drug in Australia tried by more than 7 million Australians in a lifetime, with ecstasy being the second most popular tried by 2 million people. By age 20, 37% of the popu ...
Main article: Responsible drug useThe concept of "responsible drug use" is that a person can use drugs recreationally or otherwise with reduced or eliminated risk of negatively affecting other aspects ...
The earliest known recipes date from approximately 1600 BC and come from an Akkadian tablet from southern Babylonia. There are also ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics depicting the preparation of food.Man ...
As Usenet has few technologically or legally enforced hierarchies, just about the only ones that formed were social hierarchies. People acquired power through persuasion, exerted both publicly and pri ...
The primary reason for the Great Renaming was said to be the difficulty of maintaining a list of all the existing groups.An alternative explanation was that European networks refused to pay for some o ...
The sci.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "sci.", organized hierarchically.sci.* groups discuss various scientific and research iss ...
Partial list of comp.* groups Newsgroup Topiccomp.ai artificial intelligencecomp.dcom.telecom telecommunications systemscomp.dsp Digital signal processingcomp.graphics.apps.photoshop Adobe Photoshop, ...
In telecommunications, a wildcard is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the wildcard ...
The original seven hierarchies were comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*. They were open and free for anyone to participate in (except for the moderated newsgroups), though they wer ...
The original seven hierarchies were comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*. They were open and free for anyone to participate in (except for the moderated newsgroups), though they wer ...
The Internet was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities. By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial ...
Symmetric key encryption In symmetric-key schemes, the encryption and decryption keys are the same. Thus communicating parties must have the same key before they can achieve secret communication.Publi ...
