WWW: Beyond the Basics

3. The Internet Today

3.1 Introduction

This chapter is an overview of some issues involving and affeccting the Internet today. In this chapter, we illustrate some of the Internet's advantages and disadvantages. We explain how the Internet operates along with some of its communication tools like electronic mail, remote login, the World Wide Web (WWW), Usenet news, and file transfer protocol (FTP). We will also discuss topics involving education, economic imbalance, privacy, free speech, and other social issues surrounding the Internet.

This chapter can serve as a brief Internet guide for the novice user, and a source of reference for the more experienced Internet users. The chapter's purpose is to give an introduction to the Internet, and not to cover one topic in full detail.

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