noun
newsgroup
an area on a computer network, especially on the internet, devoted to the discussion of a specified topic
In a sentence
Six example sentences with newsgroup, each labelled with its topic.
Before forums existed, a Usenet newsgroup carried threaded messages that propagated server to server overnight across university lines.
Technology
The strategy newsgroup archived every opening for a decade, and players still cite posts written before the sequel shipped.
Gaming
Astronomers announced comet sightings on a newsgroup years before preprint servers, and amateurs confirmed them within hours.
Science
Fans traded concert tape lists on a newsgroup in 1993, mailing cassettes to strangers whose only address was a university login.
Music
The film database began as a newsgroup where volunteers posted cast lists, long before any studio kept them online.
Movies
A Tolkien newsgroup spent the whole of 1995 arguing whether Balrogs had wings, and the thread has never really ended.
Literature
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