# Canonical recap data for Completion of the Great Western Railway (1841)
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title: Completion of the Great Western Railway
subtitle: Brunel's Great Western Railway from London to Bristol pioneered high-speed rail engineering and demonstrated the viability of long-distance steam locomotive transport.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1841-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1841
decade: 1840
country:
name: United Kingdom
slug: united-kingdom
summaryShort: A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are not only discussion groups or conversations, but also a repository to publish articles, start developing tasks like creating Linux, sustain mailing lists and file upload
summaryLong: "A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are not only discussion groups or conversations, but also a repository to publish articles, start developing tasks like creating Linux, sustain mailing lists and file uploading. That’s thanks to the protocol, which has no article size limit - it’s up to the providers to decide. In the late 1980s, Usenet articles were often limited by the providers to 60,000 characters, but in time, Usenet groups have been split into two types: text for mainly discussions, conversations, articles, limited by most providers to about 32,000 characters, and binary for file transfer, with providers setting limits ranging from less than 1 MB to about 4 MB. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to read the content of newsgroups. Before the adoption of the World Wide Web, Usenet newsgroups were among the most popular Internet services."
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