Whois & Analysis for couchpota.to

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP dial-up network architecture.

Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980.

Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups.

Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today.

Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.

The name comes from the term "users network".

In computer networks, to download is to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems.

This contrasts with uploading, where data is sent to a remote server.

BitTorrent is a communications protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing ("P2P") which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet.

BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, such as digital video files containing TV shows or video clips or digital audio files containing songs.

Peer-to-peer networks have been estimated to collectively account for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on location).

In November 2004, BitTorrent was responsible for 25% of all Internet traffic.

As of February 2013, BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth, more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing.