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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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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
IRC is a text-based chat system used for live discussions of groups.

For a history of IRC see Charles A. Gimon, IRC: The Net in Realtime, http://www.skypoint.com/~gimonca/irc2.html

http://www.skypoint.com/~gimonca/irc2.html