the Internet

The Internet is a global network, connecting many smaller individual networks. For example, the computer you might be using in the library is connected to another computer on campus. This computer is, in turn, connected to regional, national and international networks.

The Internet is also a set of "protocols" that allow you to communicate with people, move files between computers, and find and share information. The protocols you are likely to use are:

email

for communicating with people across the Internet

http

(hypertext transfer protocol) for making Web pages accessible

telnet

for logging into other computers such as databases and host computers
ftp

(file transfer protocol) for transferring files from one computer to another across the Internet
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