OTHER INTERNET FEATURES
Apart from the World Wide Web and e-mail, here are some other features of the Internet you may have heard about:
Newsgroups on the Internet are the equivalent of newspapers or magazines where all of the articles in the newpaper or magazine are written by the readers. It's like a public bulletin board where anyone can post a message or information and where others can come and read it.
There are literally thousands of Newgroups set up on the Internet, each one dealing with a different issue or topic. There are Newsgroups discussing everything from Dinosaurs to The Muppets, from Mythology to Elvis Presley, from Chinese Cooking to Fashion - the list is almost endless.
They are about inter-personal information - you can read all of the messages and comments which other Internet users have posted to the Newsgroup and then reply or post your own comments. Almost everything in Newsgroups is a discussion of some sort, although a few groups are devoted to regular information postings, with no discussion allowed.
When you post your comments to a Newsgroup, they are automatically distributed to all
other Internet networks like HomeNet, where subscribers can then view them. So remember,
there may be hundreds of thousands of people out there who will read your comments!
To view the Newsgroups just click on the 'Newsgroups' button.
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FTP is a facility which enables you to connect to a remote computer and copy files back and forth. More data is transferred via FTP than by any other method on the Internet, and it's not surprising since it's a least-common denominator that almost every machine on the Internet supports. There are probably millions of files available via FTP on the Internet, ranging from software updates to games.
From our 'Shareware' page you can connect to some of the biggest Shareware FTP sites on
the Internet. One connected, you can then select the software you require and FTP it down
into your own computer.
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Telnet is like an Internet modem. As with a standard modem, Telnet enables your computer to communicate with another computer somewhere else. Just as you give your modem a phone number to dial, you give Telnet an Internet address to connect to. And just like a modem, you don't really do anything within Telnet itself other than make the connection.
Once that connection is made, you're can use the remote computer over the Internet just
as though you were sitting at it. Of course, you first of all need to have an account on
the remote computer, so that your connection will be recognised as valid, otherwise the
connection will be refused.
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