BBS- Bulletin Board System
Using just your computer, modem and phone line; you can connect to a network of local BBSes giving you access to a a whole world of information, people, services, and entertainment. You can get quality software and communicate with people around the world about various interests.
For more information:
http://www.naples.net/remote/zrbbs.htm

E-mail-Electronic mail
A way to communicate with colleagues around the world electronically. It is fast and effective and a great way to save time when you need and answer quick and don't have time to play phone tag or wait for the postal system.
For more information:
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Software/Electronic_Mail/
http://www.netcoach.com/email.html

Free-Net
Provide free Internet access to people in varios communities, often through libraries, local community colleges, or universities, or through Community Based Organizations.
For more information:
http://duke.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html/#us

FTP-File Transfer Protocol
A system that allows users to transfer files from one computer to another across the Internet. Although it was orginally developed as part of the UNIX operating system, there is now client and server FTP software for almost all types of computers and operating systems.
For more information:
http://tile.net/ftp-list/
http://www.snoopie.com/
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/archie.html
http://www.netcoach.com/ftp.html

Gopher
A menu-based server system for finding and retrieving resources on the Internet. Text based.
For more information
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/
http://www.webbuild.com/~mbowen/index11.htm
http://www.netcoach.com/gopher.html

IRC-Internet Relay Chat
A multi-user chat system, where people convene on "channels" (a virtual place, usually with a topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately.
For more information:
http://www.kei.com/irc.html
http://www.webbuild.com/~mbowen/index12.htm

Listserv
Listserv was designed to act as a mailing list server whose function was to distribute e-mail to users appearing in a mailing list. Each mailing list addresses a specific area of interest.
For more information:
http://www.earn.net/lvg/server.html
http://k12.cnidr.org:90/lists.html
http://www.netcoach.com/listsrv.html

MOO-Mulit-user Domain-Object Oriented
A real time interaction system which allows one to construct spaces or rooms within which multiple individuals can congregate and interact. Movement is possible room to room, by typing in directions.
For more information:
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/moo/
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/moo/

MUD-Multi-user Domain
Real time interaction system traditionally used for social-role playing.
For more information:
http://www.eskimo.com/~hmcom/mud/dict.html

Newbie
One who is considered a beginner or a person who is doing something for the first time, with lack of experience or skill.
For more information on becoming an experienced Internetter:
http://www.interlog.com/~csteele/newbie.html
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1945/index1.htm
http://www.cs.dal.ca/dummy.html
gopher://lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu/11/research-aid/internet room/beginner

Search Engines
One of the tools developed to search the WWW. Allows you to search the Web in terms of what you want, instead of where it is located.
For more information:
http://www.netcoach.com/search.html

TELNET
An application that allows the user to log into a remote, usually UNIX based computer over the Internet.
For more information:
http://www.netcoach.com/telnet.html

URL-Universal Resource Locator
A URL is the unique address to each Web page at the Web site on the WWW. The URL is made up of three parts: first part: protocol used by web side such as http:// listed below second part: domain name of Web Site such as nsca.edu/ listed below third part: path of file at Webdemoweb/rui-primer.html as listed below. Always type the URL exactly as it is written.
For more information:
http://ncsa.edu/demoweb/rui-primer.html

Usenet newsgroups
One of the busiest parts of the Internet, Usenet newsgroups are Electronic discussion groups in which you can share information and opinoins with people all over the world. With each newsgroup, you'll find any number of articles on a given subject, and many subjects being discussed. Usenet newsgroups allow you to reply to articles you have read and to post your own articles for others to read.
For more information:
http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu
http://www.globalcenter.net/gcweb/tour.usenet.html
http://www.netcoach.com/news.html

WAIS-Wide Area Information Servers
A database system available in Gopher and World Wide Web. WAIS databases are full text search databases, which means that the search engine searches the entire document for the word or words specified in the search criterea. WAIS ranks all documents that contain the search criteria by the number of times the word or words appear in the document. Once WAIS finds documents that match the search criteria, it then allows the user to read the actual document, unlike a library card catalog, which only provides an abstract of the book or journal.
For more information:
http://www.ub2.lu.se/auto-new/udc.html
http://www.netcoach.com/wais.html

Web Browser
A program which enables the user to view documents that are placed on the WWW. See Internet Search Tools below.
For more information:
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/

WebChat
WebChat is the first, and most popular, real-time fully multimedia chatting application for the web. Web chat allows visitors at your Web site to engage in live conversation. Users can quickly incorporate images, video and audio clips and "hot links" into their chat. Webchat works with any standard browser.
For more information:
http://www.irsociety.com/webchat/webchat.html

WWW-World Wide Web
A hypertext based system for finding and accessing Internet resources. WWW divides information into Web pages, which contain text, graphics, digitized audio, digitized video, and hypertext links to other Internet resources like Gopher, FTP, Telnet, and databases and answer on-line surveys.
For more information:
http://137.142.42.95/WhyInternet.html
http://starpst.qub.ac.uk/www-links.html
http://www.netcoach.com/www.html

MORE TERMS

Protocol
A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data over a data communications connection.

Client
A computer system or process that requests a service from another computer system or process.

Server
A computer system or process that services the requests of other computer sytems or processes.

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol - TCP is the most common transport layer protocol used on Ethernet and the INternet. TCP is built on top of Internet Protocol (IP) and is nearly always seen in the combination TCP/IP (TCP over IP).

Slip
Serial Line Internet Protocol - SLIP software allows the Internet Protocol (IP), normally used on Ethernet, to be used over a serial line, eg. an RS-232 serial port connected to a modem.

PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol - PPP provides the Internet standard method for transmitting IP pactkets over serial point-to-point links. PPP supports both asynchronous and synchronous lines.

FTP
File Transfer Protocol is a client-server protocol which allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a TCP/IP network.

Telnet
Telnet is the Internet standard protocol for remote login. Telnet runs on top of TCP/IP.

E-Mail
Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines.

Gopher
Gopher is a popular distributed document retrieval system. Many hosts on the Internet run Gopher servers which provide a menu of documents. A document may be a plain text file, sound, image, submenu or other Gopher object type.

Archie
Archie is an indexed directory of filenames from all anonymous FTP archives on the Internet.

Veronica
Veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher menu titles in the enter Gopher web. As Archie is to FTP archives, Veronica is to Gopherspace.

WWW
(WWW, W3, The Web) The World-Wide Web is an Internet client-server hypertext based information retrieval system.

URL
Universal Resource Link - URLs are a draft standard for specifying an object on the Internet, such as a file or newsgroup. URLs are used extensively on the World-Wide Web. They are used in HTML documents to specify the target of a hyperlink.