Investing Games Tech Life Downloads Developer Usenet 101 Created before the birth of the Internet, newsgroups began as a method to exchange information among large groups of people.
Today there are thousands of newsgroups, dedicated to every topic imaginable.
Together, the totality of newsgroups is called Usenet. A newsgroup is a form of online discussion that works very much like this bulletin board. First, to view the bulletin board you need a program called a news reader. You must read through the thread to see the conversation unfold. If you see a post somewhere in the discussion string that you would like to comment on or add information to, you can post your own original articles wherever the discussion leaves off.