Usenet and Bit Torrent, give me answers

I feel pretty stupid, surfing the internet since 96 and still I don't think I've ever used a "usenet"... exactly what is it and where do I find it? Don't just say google! :)

Ok for bit-torrent, yea I know how to leech off people, but how do you use files like off a website and such? I'm a bit confused about that... if no one is on it, won't there be no downloads if people click them?
 

Aazealh

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Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. "Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by people on computers with the appropriate software -- these articles are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide variety of networks.

Some helpful links:

http://www2.webmagic.com/usenet.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/usenet-help.html

Just so you know it took me 0.00001 sec to find this on Google.
 
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Aazealh said:
Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. "Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by people on computers with the appropriate software -- these articles are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide variety of networks.

Some helpful links:

http://www2.webmagic.com/usenet.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/usenet-help.html

Just so you know it took me 0.00001 sec to find this on Google.

Ooooo! Impressive!
 
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