Usenet Download

Though the Usenet initially was designed and intended to be a major knowledge archive for the exchange of information especially between members of the science community, it soon developed to a popular and extremely comfortable download platform. The introduction of binary newsgroups enabled Usenet users to publish and download file attachments. The unique structure of networks of usenet servers allow huge download speeds.

In 2007 one of the best known and established provider of usenet services, UseNeXT, proclaimed a download speed contest. Whoever was able to achieve the fasted download of the freeware operation system Ubuntu(link) would win $1000 in cash and 1TB free UseNeXT data volume. The winner of the contest downloaded the 674 MB Ubuntu in impressive 34 seconds.

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