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- An Overview of the Internet
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- Internet Features
- Email - world wide correspondence
- Listservs - computers that maintain automated special
- interest group mailing lists
- Telnet - remote login to distant computers
- Finger - finding information about people on the net
- Usenet - automated discussion/news groups
- FTP - file transfer protocol (getting free software)
- Archie - service used to find archived software
- talk - 2-way on-line chat
- IRC - internet relay chat (talk for groups)
- Gopher - A menuing/file transfer system for internet
- resource searching
- Veronica - a program used to search worldwide gopher menus
- Jughead - like Veronica for a smaller scope of gopher menus
- WAIS - wide area information server (a database searching
- tool)
- WWW - world wide web ("the web") - a hypertext gopher
- White Pages - services for locating people on the net
- zines - electronic magazines published over the net
- ejournals - more scholarly electronic journals published
- over the net
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- Important Terms
- TCP/IP - Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- (the technical implementation of the rules that
- make the internet work)
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
- NNTP - Network News Transport Protocol
- NREN - National Research and Education Network
- NII - National Information Infrastructure
- Unix - an operating system used by many computers on
- the internet
- userid - the name you use to log in to the net
- FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name (like coyote.csusm.edu)
- top level
- domain - major type of domain category (edu, org, mil, com)
- IP Address - 4 segment numeric address corresponding to the
- FQDN used by computers to transfer data over the
- internet
- DNS - Domain Name System - used by TCP/IP to translate
- FQDNs to IP Addresses and back again
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- Important Unix Command:
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- host - Returns the IP Address for a domain name and
- a domain name for an IP address
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