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backbone site
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n.,obs. Formerly, a key Usenet and email site, one that processes a large
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amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of
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the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of
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early 1993, when this sense of the term was beginning to pass out of general
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use due to wide availability of cheap Internet connections, included uunet
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and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC 's Western
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Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the University of Texas.
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Compare leaf site. [2001 update: This term has passed into history. The UUCP
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network world that gave it meaning is gone; everyone is on the Internet now
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and network traffic is distributed in very different patterns.
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