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Foil 50 The Internet (3)

From Introduction to Internetworking Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski


Services
  • WWW - World Wide Web
  • USENET - is an Internet broadcast news service
  • E-MAIL - Electronic Mail (based on SMTP, POP3, IMAP4)
  • FTP - File Transfer Protocol service; also anonymous
  • ARCHIE - allows quick localization of information on FTP servers
  • GOPHER - distributed document search and retrieval system
  • WAIS - Wide Area Information Service - search and retrieval
  • TELNET - protocol which allows remote login
  • DNS - Domain Name Service is responsible for translation between domain names and IP addresses.



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