alt.
English
Etymology
Newsgroup meaning comes from it being an "alternative" to the mainstream Usenet hierarchies. As it was easier for people to create newsgroups within this hierarchy, more of them were seen by people who used Usenet.
Prefix
alt.
- Indicates that the following string is a newsgroup.
- 1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “It's All About the Pentiums”, in Running with Scissors:
- You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser.
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