In the newsreader program, you can search through a list of available newsgroups. Then what you see is a list of articles headings. If one interests you, you simply double click on it. Sometimes these articles have pictures or attached files with them and may take a little time to download in your machine and decode. Then you can double click on the attachement and see the picture or hear the sound or music file.
Some news readers are more complicated than others, but the overall idea is the same.
Sometimes you run into an article that would have interested you, but it is no longer available. There is this neat search engine that archives articles from about 12 hours after they have been posted to several months ago. With this same search engine can find the most likely newgroups for your interests. Each week, this column will present a little more about the Internet and all of its features. If your questions have a general interest, they will be published in this column.