Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What operating system was Usenet meant to assist in sharing information?

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Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  The father of the web, Tim Berners, announced the birth of the World Wide Web project to the Usenet community in what year?

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Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What image format was developed due to the extensive Usenet collaboration?

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Today’s Question:  A bit of a tough one today: The Network News Transfer Protocol allows traffic generated by Usenet to be natively routed over TCP/IP. This was not always the case. What Year was this protocol released?

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Today’s Question: Truscott and Ellis, the founders of Usenet, presented and attended for the first time at a conference in Boulder, Colorado in 1980 which would lead to a key involvement by Steve Daniel. What did they call this presentation?

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Today’s Question:  When was the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable linking North America and Europe completed?

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Today’s Question:  What does a 502 error mean?

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Today’s Question:  What year did the number of BITNET hosts break 1,000?

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Today’s Question:  What year did ARPANET split into ARPANET and MILNET?

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Today’s Question:  In 1993, the NSFnet Acceptable Use Policy was “reinterpreted”.  Why?

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Today’s Question:  In 1969, ARPANET was commissioned by the DoD.  Nodes were setup at four locations.  Name the four locations.

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Today’s Question:  What year was DNS introduced?

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Today’s Question:  What year were the first moderated groups (mod.*) introduced to Usenet?

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Today’s Question:  What does the NNTP reply code 250 mean?

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Today’s question:  The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson’s Model 33 Teletype for its “at” meaning.   What year did this happen?

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Today’s quesion:  What is a killfile?

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A small search engine called ‘Google’ opened its doors on September 7th, 1998.  It was originally given a name because of its unique ability to analyze ‘back links’ pointing to a given website.  It was renamed shortly before opening.  What was its original name?

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We want everyone to know we are really excited about the trivia contest.  We received over 25 correct answers for the trivia contest from April 26th.  We decided to create a free one month account for every correct answer we received!  If you didn’t answer, you missed out!  We may do this again in the future so keep trying even if you do not win the first or second time you enter.

Just a reminder, we will now be posting the winners in the comments section of the blog post for each question.

Here is today’s trivia question: When did the “Great Renaming” occur?

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We have a winner!

 H.G from London, England won today’s question with the following answer:  humanities.*, comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*

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Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  Name the Big 8 hierarchies

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We have a winner! 

Harry P. from Athens, Greece provided the following answer:  May 11th, 1981

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Here is today’s question:  The oldest known Usenet article found in the Archive records in the Groups of Google is from what date?

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We have a winner for yesterday’s question.

 J.R. of Paris, France succesfully answered:

Some users placed the word “meow” in their killfiles due to  several spammer who had invaded many groups.  Long story short, these spammers were posting spam which often contained the word “meow” or other feline references.

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Today’s question is a little more challenging and might require some research by the average usenet user.

Question: Why was the word “meow” placed into many experienced usenetters’ “killfiles” in the mid 1990’s?

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We have a winner for yesterday’s Newsgroups Usenet Trivia contest.

Charles J. of London, UK correctly answered that the original standard was RFC 0850.  We actually would have accepted several different answers for this questions because there is some debate about which RFC is truly the Usenet’s original standard.
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Today’s Trivia Question:  What was the RFC (Request For Comments) Number for the original Usenet Standard?

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David E. from Virginia Beach, VA USA won today’s trivia contest by correctly providing the following answer:

Posting not allowed

POST command issued when posting is not allowed.

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Today’s trivia question:  What does it mean if your newsreader returns a status code of 440?

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We have a winner!

Juan N. from Madrid, Spain was the first to submit that Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis were given credit for conceiving the Usenet at Duke University in 1979. Juan will receive a free month of Newsgroups access from Newsdemon.com!

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What are the names of the two graduate student given credit for creating usenet?

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We have a winner!
Sam C. of Aurora, Colorado, USA successfully answered June 25, 2005 as the date AOL discontinued servicing usenet customers through their service!
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Check back tomorrow for another trivia question!

We have decided to offer a regular “Free Usenet Trivia Contest”.  We will be asking a single trivia question regarding something “usenet related”.  The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Today’s question: On what date did America Online (AOL) discontinue providing free newsgroup access through its service