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Within Vinony's link graph, Network News Transfer Protocol is referenced by 309 other articles, and connects out to Q73, newsreader and Internet.
It sits within the topics Application layer protocols, Internet Standards and Usenet.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego, and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan O. Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.
Usenet was originally designed based on the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct point-to-point telephone links between news servers, which were powerful time-sharing systems. Readers and posters logged into these computers reading the articles directly from the local disk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Network News Transfer Protocol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.