Part 1 of Essay
PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most notably librari ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... the "internet" more or less consisted of telnet, FTP (file transfer protocol), crude email programs, and news reading. Telnet made library catalogs, online services, bulletin boards, databases and other network services available to casual computer users, although not with the friendly graphic user interfaces one sees today. Each of the early internet functions could be invoked from the UNIX prompt, however, each of them used a different client program with its own unique problems. Internet software has sin ....