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BIFF (Usenet) — Wikipedia (en)

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@misc{dc06eafbee8a13,
  title = {BIFF (Usenet) — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)},
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  year = {2026}
}

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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet). Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

BIFF, later sometimes B1FF, was a pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet. BIFF was created as and taken up as a satire of a partly amusing, partly annoying, mostly unwelcome intrusion into a then fairly rarefied community. BIFF had a VIC-20 at first and a Commodore 64 later (as these were both computers looked down upon as low-end by the majority of the veteran Usenet community). BIFF posts were limited to line lengths of either 22 characters (like the VIC-20) or 40 characters (like the Commodore 64) to look like they'd come from those machines.

Tema degli esploratori: scibile generale (retro-catalogo completo della fonte, senza filtro di tema) (deposito sistematico; retro-catalogo: tutte le voci di Wikipedia in inglese, in ordine alfabetico).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «BIFF (Usenet)» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)
Wikidata Q4835658: «pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4835658
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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