Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

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    10 months ago

    Think of it like a “fast”, automated telegraph that speaks in audible binary instead of Morse code.

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        It might actually be hexadecimal or some other encoding but you get the point.