NNTP is a protocol for transmitting news articles and posts between Usenet servers on the internet. It was developed in the 1980s at the University of California, San Diego and University of California, Berkeley to allow users to read and post to online newsgroups from personal computers connected to the internet, as the UUCP network did not support this capability across different file systems. The NNTP protocol is still widely used today for accessing online newsgroups, though some newer protocols like IMAP can also be used.