rings a bell bit coins ?
http://www.coindesk.com/information/
That should help with some basics.
Essentially Bitcoin is an open currency without borders, it's entirely decentralized and out of the hands of governments, it cannot be seized, frozen, or forced refunds. You can transfer value instantly around with little to no fees. It helps bring financial freedom and power back to the hands of consumers. It can be thought of the internet during the early days where people could see potential everywhere, but it wasn't a household thing. Or Bitcoin is to fiat government controlled currency, as Email was to the postal service.
As for your hardware, you can only mine on the GPU, you can mine on the cpu, but it's ineffective and can bottleneck the gpu mining.
Rather than mining Bitcoins directly, you would be better off mining and alternate coin then exchanging it for Bitcoin. Litecoin for example uses a different algorithm which at the moment still makes GPU mining effective. Currently it's 4.7x more effective to mine litecoin than it is to mine bitcoin with the same gpu.
With that said a single 7870 can get around 450 K/hash.
https://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison
using a calculator, if you were to mine litecoin with your GPU running at full speed (likely making your computer laggy, or entirely unusable). You stand to make 0.42 Litecoins = 0.007182 Bitcoins = $0.89 cents per 24 hours.
https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=450&difficulty=1064.33164887
Prices are volatile and shifting constantly.
If you are wanting to purchase some Bitcoins, you can find local exchange by searching for your region here.
I would like to add, that it is currently not too late to get into bitcoins. We are still in the early stages of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they are growing and becoming bigger in the world each day. People who are just getting into them now, in the longer run, will still be considered early adopters.
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