The Internet is a combination of many networks and a large number of databases and other services.
The major services offered on the Internet are:
- Electronic Mail: All you need is someone's address and you can send him or her all sorts of thing - documents, pictures, audio/video etc.
- Telnet: It allows you to connect and log into a remote computer.
- FTP: File Transfer Protocol lets you transfer files from one computer on the Internet to another.
- World Wide Web (www,w3, web): It is not a tool, program or service, but a way of viewing and accessing the Internet. It gives you hypertext, even hypermedia, access to all varieties of resources and services on the Internet.
- Usenet: It is a system of discussion groups in which individual articles are distributed throughout the world.
- Archie: It lets you search the archives of files accessible by anonymous FTP. You give the complete or partial name of a file and Archie returns the Internet address and location of files.
- WAIS: It stands for Wide Area Information Services. It is a client-server text searching system to search index databases on remote computers.
- Gopher: Gopher was an Internet application in which hierarchically-organized text files could be brought from servers all over the world to a viewer on your computer. Two tools for searching Gopher file hierarchies were Veronica and Jughead.
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