CONTENTS   SEARCH   HISTORY   HELP

Report: What is the Internet Browse:   Related Search: Themes: · global networks Keywords: · ICT-companies · information-infrastructure · public-access · history of computing · technological development

WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > WHAT IS THE INTERNET > INTERNET SERVICES

Internet services 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 browse Report: What is the Internet -3   What is the Internet? -2   How the Internet works -1   Acessing the Internet 0   Internet services +1   Operating the net: overview +2   Who owns the Internet and who is in charge? +3   Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and Virtual Private Networks      ... Global Data Flows  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  The World Wide Web History Project The ongoing World Wide Web History Project was established to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking. As primary research methods are used archival research and the analysis of interviews and talks with pioneers of the World Wide Web. As result a vast of collection of historic video, audio, documents, and software is expected. The project's digital archive is currently under development. http://www.webhistory.org/home.html