newsgroups
definition: Newsgroups could be thought of as the secret society of the Internet, at least until Google unveiled them in 2001 through Google Groups, after buying the Usenet archive from . Newsgroups are, in reality, the mother of all social Websites, the dinosaur of social networking. They came out before the Web existed and at the point when the Internet was used exclusively by scientists and the military. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Networks; Newsgroups]
broader: social networking communities
broader: networks and networking
type: Concept

networks and networking
type: Concept
narrower: newsgroups

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: newsgroups

social networking communities
type: Concept
narrower: newsgroups