Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called "articles" or "posts", and collectively termed "news") to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. The name comes from the term "users network".

One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server operated by a commercial usenet provider, their Internet service provider, university, employer, or their own server.

Usenet has significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ", "flame", and "spam".

Answer this series of questions:

1. What system is this article about?
2. How many people thought of the idea?
3. Who is one?
4. And the other?
5. When did the idea come to them?
6. When did they create it?
7. How many computer words are mentioned having been made there?
8. Is LOL one of them?
9. What is one of them?
10. Another?
11. And a third?
12. Where does the word Usenet come from?

Numbered answers:
1. Usenet
2. two
3. Tom Truscott
4. Jim Ellis
5. in 1979
6. in 1980
7. three
8. no
9. FAQ
10. flame
11. spam
12. "users network".