Welcome to HyperNews.org

This is the home page for HyperNews. Starting here you should be able to find other HyperNews forums, if we know about them. About HyperNews is the top level of forums about HyperNews itself, including User Instructions and the Source.

Forum Categories

Several forums exist to discuss many other topics, organized under the following categories. Most of these forums are on servers other than www.hypernews.org.

Entertainment and Recreation
- Sports
- Music
Humanities (Graphics, Images, Photography, Art, Philosophy and Literature)
Science
Computers and the WWW
- Languages/Operating Systems (Java, HTML, Windows)
- WWW
Government and Politics
Business, Finance, and Economics
Education
Society and Culture
Miscellaneous
- HyperNews Page of Public Maintainers is a list of pages on several topics.
- KORRnet Forums are on many different subjects concerning the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area.
Foreign Languages - some use translations of HyperNews
- Tamil.net - uses some asian font. Please tell me what this is about.
- Hungarian-American HyperNews
- Ontario Online Public Forum
- A French version of HyperNews - used to get responses for topics on a TV show
- Le forum de discussion du canal Undernet #france
- Bienvenue dans la partie Forum de ce site - French version with a mess of new icons.
- HyperNews - EDS/FAPSE - a French site
- Pénétrez dans l'Agora - a complete French translation of HyperNews.
- Czech Republic Discussions
- Czech Novell - using a Czech version of HyperNews.
- Saknade sidor! in Swedish?
- Universitetet i Bergen, is in Norwegian
- LUFS discussion - in Norway
- Technická Univerzita v Košiciach - something technical in SK.
- Egnatia (Department of Electrical Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) HyperNews Forum - Greek version
- Het Outside-forum is in Belgium, I think.
- German Medicine Forums
- Unser World Wide Web-Server auf dem Weg zur Collaborative Work - in German.
- Diskussionsforen in German, about Archeology.
- Discussie platform - in Dutch
- DISCUSSIE: JE IDEALE E-MAIL ADRES? and some Helpdesk forum
- South African Seasons
- NCU Dslab in Taiwan?
- HyperNews of NCU Math Dept is partly in Chinese.
- tut.ac.jp - in Japan (what is it about?)
- shimizu.wbs.or.jp - another in Japanese.
- Another Japanese forum using EUC Kanji Code.
- Intranet Discussion Board in Korean.
- Russian forums on computer products

Featured Forums

Listed here are some particularly interesting and novel uses of HyperNews.

Parents Place has over 750 forums on parent/child related topics.

The Stock Club is the web's first online discussion forum for all stocks. You can become a member at no cost, and can then read and post responses to hundreds of forums on individual stocks. The membership form, which pops up when authentication fails, has extensive, built-in instructions.

The Gold Forum at Gold-eagle.com uses an inlined, non-threaded, format with date/time subdivisions.

The Web Course Project at the Learning Resource Center of California State University, Northridge uses HyperNews for dozens of classes.

Digital Document Discourse Environment uses an extensively modified version of HyperNews to support structured documents with associated discussions. Be sure to check out the half-dozen example uses of their system.

As of August 1997, we have moved from union.ncsa.uiuc.edu. HyperNews development was funded by the Software Development Group at NCSA, UIUC from 1994 to 1997. Our new home is www.HyperNews.org, so please update your URLs.

As of February 2006, HyperNews,org is now running out of my home machine, networked through speakeasy.net. (You can give HyperNews a referral bonus if you use that link.) I've been using their service for several years with almost zero problems.

Note that the HyperNews software is not owned by our host, or any sponsor. NCSA still owns the copyright, but it permits free use and distribution of the HyperNews software with non-proprietary modifications. See the licencing terms on the source page for more details.

The HyperNews project supports several causes.

Freeware and Open Software

HyperNews is freeware - it doesn't cost you anything for a copy. Benchmarking Freeware shows that no-cost software is often better than the alternative.

HyperNews is also open source software - it comes with source code. (But proprietary derivatives are allowed.) See the license terms in the HyperNews Source Forum.

Anti-Spam

The current version of HyperNews allows users to hide email addresses from public view. It is unfortunate that we must do this to fight the spammers and their abuse of the email system.

Caching

The WWW increasingly needs more use of caches to avoid fetching documents that you or your neighbors have previously fetched. HyperNews supports caching of its message pages even though they are generated via cgi programs.

Freedom of Speech

Please let us know (mailto:liberte@hypernews.org) if you experience any problems at this site.