ThunderNews News Updates Specials

Virgin To Offer 1.5GB Connections

Virgin Media plans to start trialling broadband cable connections of up to 1.5Gbps with four businesses in the area of east London known as Silicon Roundabout allowing for one of the fastest access to USENET. The company said it planned...

April 21, 2011

Technology Usenet

USENET Freedom Highest in US and UK

Cyber attacks, politically motivated censorship and government control are among the threats to internet freedom, according to a study found on USENET newsgroups. The “Freedom on the Net 2011: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media” study was released...

April 19, 2011

General Newsgroups Technology

AT&T Imposes Download Cap In May

AT&T today rolled out major change to its DSL terms of service, notifying its customers of new data caps, network management rules, and usage metering tools. Here’s why the caps are coming: AT&T has experienced a dramatic increase in...

April 11, 2011

General Technology

ARPANET Founder Paul Baron Goes Offline

Internet pioneer Paul Baran has died at his home in Palo Alto, Calif., of lung cancer, his son David said. He was 84 In 1961, engineer Paul Baran sold a communications method called “packet switching” to the U.S. Department of...

March 28, 2011

Technology Uncategorized Usenet

Twitter Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary

Today in 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent off the very first tweet, an unimpressive message that read “just setting up my twttr.” It was not until much later when it hit USENET newsgroup subscribers and the web that it...

March 22, 2011

General Member News Promotions Uncategorized Usenet

ThunderNews Reaches 910 Days of Article Retention

ThunderNews.com now offers 910 days of retention on binaries, providing better service to members without any increase in price. In yet another upgrade to the lightning fast, feature-rich premium Usenet access that ThunderNews provides, all customers will now receive additional...

March 11, 2011

General Newsgroups Usenet

National Day of Unplugging on USENET Starts Tonight

Starting Friday March 4 at sundown, many on USENET will turn off their computers and other tech gizmos for the weekend, taking a break from the cyber world into reality. Such is the lofty goal of National Day of Unplugging...

March 4, 2011

Newsgroups Specials Usenet

ThunderNews: 860+ Day Article Retention Increase On Newsgroups

Always striving to offer customers a superior USENET service experience, premium USENET access provider ThunderNews.com now has now reached 860 days of retention and continues to expand.

February 21, 2011