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 |
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Gopher Gopher is a menu system with hierarchically structured list of files that predates the World Wide Web. Today Gopher is of diminishing importance and mostly replaced by the World Wide Web. |
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