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The Internet can be used in in different ways: for distributing and retrieving information, for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many communication, and for the access services. Accordingly, there are different services on offer. The most important of these are listed below.

Telnet

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

Electronic Messaging (E-Mail)

World Wide Web (WWW)

Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Multiple User Dimensions (MUDs)

Gopher




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What is the Internet
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-2   How the Internet works
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+1   Operating the net: overview
+2   Who owns the Internet and who is in charge?
+3   Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and Virtual Private Networks
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Telnet
Telnet allows you to login remotely on a computer connected to the Internet.