THE electronic mail
(e-mail), through which a user exchanged messages withanyone else. It is the first, simplest and most widespread of services. Each userhas an e-mail (Poe example: valencia@postfix.local). In that server(postfix.local) are stored the messages we are receiving. When you connectyou can see a list of them, read them, save them, reply, etc. .. A case in point isthe distribution lists The only thing needed to join a list is to have access toemail, and to launch one, an appropriate software available on the network. (asechange, mercury and other in case of Windows or postfix, exim, sendmail,squirrelmail, gmail platform on Linux)
Web applications
where the picture was more open to enjoy the interactionsof 'global grid' which combines the techniques of information retrieval with forthe hypertext build an easy but powerful global information system. We cannavigate through multimedia documents containing textual information,graphics, images, sounds, video, and connections that lead to pressing otherdocument that may be on the same server or in another part of the world. Through various applications (average wiki, joomla, worpress, Mosaic, Linx,Netscape, etc. ..) the user interacts with the same feeling as if you are on yourown computer screens, is introduced in a communicative space in which itmoves Server server, display screen in selecting and clicking the mouse. There are other application services:
Newsgroups
. Here is the server that subscribes to a news group. We can seethe topics for discussion and select those that interest us. Unlike mailing lists,here comes the information to our server, but we have to accede to the groupthat maintains on the subject that interests us.
File Transfer Protocol.
Different applications facilitate the transfer of a file(data, programs, textbooks, etc. ..) from one computer to another, even if thecomputers have different operating system or archiving. It requires knowingthe name or address of the server. Many servers provide access to a portion of their directories to any user. They are the FTP-Anonymous (user: Anonymous,password: the address itself). There is also the possibility FTP mail for userswho only have the ability to e-mail.
Gopher.
Gopher combines the features of the news and databases into adistribution system that allows a browse information organized in a hierarchicalmanner, or seek information on a specific indexes the full text. This isaccomplished through an intuitive interface (windows with folders and icons)and friendly and which can be accessed from other network services (WWW,telnet ...). From the user's point of view, are presented on the screen differentfolders, documents, search tools, ... and you can run, read, edit ...
Remote access
to servers located anywhere in the world that allows you torun programs, and so on that computer as if it were a terminal of the sameNews services (news), where each user subscribes to the issues you care aboutmost and daily access to a multitude of information on themAnyway, after all Mancione you have to think about the stability of the entireworld so wonderful that gives us the network of networks, network andcommunications where he was born manager of the network and its monitoring
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