Usenet Explained

Usenet was born before the internet. At first Usenet was used to discuss with users around the world on all sort of topics. To make Usenet more evident 9 hierarchies were born as a result from people with different interests wanted to discuss: comp.* (computer related discussions), humanities.* (philosophy, fine arts and literature), misc.* (miscellaneous topics), news.* (news discussions and announcements), rec.* (recreation and entertainment), sci.* (science related discussions), soc.* (social discussions), talk.* (discuss controversial topics) and the hierarchie alt.* at the beginning to exchange self created software. But grew out as the hierarchie were binaries (movies, games, music and software) were posted, and still are posted. Because the binaries (movies, games, music and software) are posted in alt.*. Alt.* became the biggest hierarchie.

So someone decides to upload a movie to the hierarchie alt.*, in the newsgroup alt.binaries.boneless. The file is now posted in the newsgroup and will be shared in the network of servers (usenet servers) which are giving access to the newsgroup alt.binaries.boneless. The network of usenet servers is very big.

Usenet is basically a network of servers (usenet providers) which are giving access to newsgroups.