Youtube, social networks, commented blogs & Co. Web 2.0 is still on everyone's lips. The individual platforms and forums enjoy great popularity among old and young Internet users. Because here like-minded people can get in touch with each other, exchange ideas and discuss in a simple and uncomplicated way. The resulting user-generated content (UGC) and complete freedom of expression make the "new" Web so diverse, colorful and popular for good reason. One of the UGC pioneers is Usenet. Here, students exchanged ideas long before the WWW or other Internet services, corresponding VZs or other social networks even existed.
So Usenet is still full of trends! And also full of trends! In Usenet you can find everything that makes you a trendsetter, not only young artists, unknown bands, the new scene DJ, but also trailers, games and much more! Where the Internet ends, Usenet is just beginning.
But what exactly is the Usenet, how does it work, how do I get into it and what can I actually do in it? These are the questions that will be answered here.
The term Usenet, which has become a proper name, is the abbreviation for "UNIX User Network". In short, Usenet is the world's largest, mostly unmoderated, electronic discussion forum! 
People from all parts of the world meet here, communicate with each other, exchange information and network. Anyone can join and participate. The Usenet is practical and structured. It is hierarchically divided into so-called newsgroups. Each newsgroup is a separate discussion forum, so to speak, in which an almost unlimited amount of information and data can be found. The title of the newsgroup briefly and concisely describes its content. As on the Internet, abbreviations are extremely popular on Usenet. This is also reflected in the naming of the newsgroups. For example, the group a.b.freeware stands for alt.binaries.freeware. So-called binaries (binary files) can be found here. Binaries are again an umbrella term for a multiplicity of different applications, data and file attachments. In the following sections we will deal with newsgroups in more detail.
Did you know? - Older than the Internet, more relevant than ever!
Did you know that Usenet is older than the Internet? Usenet was "launched" back in 1979 by two students at Duke University in North Carolina. Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott conceived Usenet as an exchange platform for messages between two universities. At that time, data was exchanged using the Unix protocol UUCP over conventional telephone lines.
From a technical point of view, the fact that Usenet is organized in a decentralized manner is particularly interesting. This simply means that the content of the newsgroups, and thus of the Usenet, is not stored centrally on a single computer, but rather in parallel on many different Usenet servers. These are constantly connected to each other. The advantage of this architecture is that stored information and data are available for a certain period of time - the so-called retention time - throughout the entire network.
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The retention time is not the same for all Usenet service providers, but depends on their server settings. In general, when choosing a Usenet provider, users should ensure that the retention time is at least 250 days, as this is exactly how long Usenet users have access to information and data stored on the Usenet.