I still can’t wrap my head around Usenet. Can someone please it to me by comparing it with torrent?
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Usenet was basically like a big message board and it was replicated among other ISP’s, services, etc. Kind of like Imagine one of those community boards at school looking for a babysitter, a used bike for sale, etc. Now imagine if all the schools agreed to try and copy/synchronize all of those messages amongst themselves. Initially for messages but there was support for files. Most ISP’s included usenet server access for free as part of their plan.
Torrents are a bunch of people sharing parts of the file until they have a complete set. I guess this would be along the lines of you wanted a comic book and 1 guy has all the pages, and hes letting everyone copy a few pages at a time. I copy pages 1 and 2, you copy pages 3 and 5, someone else has 4 and 6. Then I trade 1 and 2 for your 3 and 5, etc. So it tries to split up the full file someone has (known as a seed) to the peers trying to also complete a full set of the file/comic book.
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