Usenet is a very big world of it’s own and it’s a lot harder to get around in (but not impossible) without anything indexing it. The result from them doing this is: we get to use their fantastic search engine! A search engine that has made our lives incredibly easy by granting us fast and easy accessible information at our fingertips. Each website they find, they track it’s name, it’s content, and the language it’s written in. Google uses it’s own web crawlers to scan the entire World Wide Web just to create an index from it.
The World Wide Web is similar to this, but instead of groups, we sort things by URLs (web addresses) such as. Basically there is just a ton of crap everywhere. As a result it’s a lot like what you might expect someone’s hard drive would look like if you gave 5 million people access to it. The thing is, Usenet has no moderation so you can place content in any group you want. We create directories all the time in efforts to add order and structure to where we keep things (so we can find them later). You can think of a group like you might think of a directory on your computer at home. There is very little organization, but it does have a defined structure.Ĭontent is sorted into groups which act as containers for it to be stored and retrieved from. We’re talking about petabytes (1000+ Terabytes) of information.
In a nutshell it’s basically a bunch of (file) servers that host a ton of information people place onto it.
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