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...

A Usenet personality was a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a...

(Unix), a UNIX mail notification program. BIFF, also B1FF or B1ff, a pseudonym used on Usenet and Internet BIFF, the Binary Interchange File Format, used...

Various informal conventions evolved for marking up plain text in email and usenet posts, which later led to the development of formal languages like setext...