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.
Copyright © 1996 Vonda M. Patterson, All Rights Reserved
Vonda M. Patterson
<vondap@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
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