"The Interrr what ???"
The Internet is:
- A World wide collection of Networks
- Provides the "wires"
- Connects computers
- Allows computers to "talk"
What can you do besides e-mail?
- Log on to other computers (Telnet)
- File Transfers (FTP)
- Browse text information (Gopher)
- Participate in discussions (Listserv)
What can you do (continued)?
- Bulletin Boards (Usenet)
- Text based searching with indexed material (WAIS)
- Hypertext browser of Internet resources
Telnet:
An application program that lets you log in to another computer
FTP:
An application program that moves files (usually) from one computer to another using the File Transfer Protocol.
Gopher:
- A menu-based system
- Enables users to explore
- Provides text based information
Listserv
Allows one to become a member of a discussion
Provides access to groups
Usenet:
News service similar to "bulletin boards"
WAIS:
- Wide-area information servers
- A powerful search network
- World Wide data base access
World-Wide Web:
- A hypertext-based system
- Finding and accessing resources
- HyperCard on a larger scale
World-Wide Web: K-12 Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Museums
- Computer Resources
- Literature
- Scientific Research
- News
Beginner's Guide to the Internet
Learn more about all of this confusing stuff
Below area few links to Web resouorces. To see a great deal more, take the link to "Yahoo" at the bottom of this page.
Art
Language
Literature
News