The Internet is a global network, connecting many smaller individual networks. For example, computers in this library are connected to other computers inside and to a Michigan educational network. The Michigan network is connected to regional, national and international networks.
The Internet is also a set of "protocols" that allow you to communicate with people, move files between computers, and find and share information. The protocols you are likely to use are:
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for communicating with people across the Internet |
http |
(hypertext transfer protocol) for making Web pages accessible |
telnet |
for logging into other computers such as databases and host computers |
ftp |
(file transfer protocol) for downloading and uploading files from one computer to another across the Internet |
2 finding info