Usenet is part of the Internet experienced a nearly forgotten part of the Internet at the moment a second spring - the so-called Usenet, often rightly referred to as the intellectual origins of today's Web. The Usenet was created in 1979 by two on UNIX-based computers connect American universities. Over standard telephone lines were then on a UNIX-specific protocol for the first time data is exchanged. Over time, the network grew only slowly, the big breakthrough came in the mid-80s with the change to the NNTP protocol, because now even non-UNIX computers could be integrated into the network. Decentralization of Usenet was thus launched, what followed was a tremendous growth which made the Usenet to what it is today: a fascinating picture of human society with a vast variety of reviews. Although there is no universally accepted definition, the term now means all offering Usenet news server, which called newsgroups. Newsgroups A newsgroup you can imagine is best described as a sort of "bulletin board" of the Internet.Such "bulletin boards", there are now in a huge variety. Newsgroups are structured thematically, in the context of this structure is often spoken of the so-called Usenet hierarchies. Karate Kid Movie Comparable to a forum on the web, leaving the members of each newsgroup here your opinions ( "Posting"), others take as reference, resulting in rapid and widespread interest "Article trees. No one knows exactly how many newsgroups, it currently has, but estimates are based on far more than 2100.00. News Server The content of these newsgroups are located on so-called news servers. Similar to a web server bereithlt HTML files, etc., are stored on a news server newsgroups. Not all news servers, however, offer all newsgroups. On the one hand, there are - as has been suggested - simply too many newsgroup, on the other problematic groups and so-called binary newsgroups with download links to the latest movies, software, etc. often censored (= binary), binary attachments.Newsreader To participate actively in the life to be able to Usenet, you need a so-called news readers. Similar to how a browser reads the Web, can be a news reader newsgroups. As a software solutions are offered here a lot more or less good free and shareware alternatives, but even that is preinstalled on every Windows Outlook Express enough. Oliver Sinz,