What is Usenet Usenet is an electronic community of people interacting with each other. Usenet is made up of newsgroups. Newsgroups contains articles that discuss the subject of the specific newsgroup.
Articles look like email between users.
Usenet is the largest, most widespread BBS-like entity in the world, and one of the oldest. Usenet is, broadly speaking, the name given to the loose network of sites that carry Usenet newsgroups and Usenet news. Newsgroups are categorized into trees, each of which is broken down into more and more specific topical sub-trees, etc. An example is rec.food.recipes which discuss recipes, and is a sub-tree of food. There are an estimated 15,000 different newsgroups, covering almost every aspect of human interest.