Internet Services

These tutorials are about the history of the Internet and an overview of the technologies of the Internet.

This tutorial has nine (9) sub-sections.

Services

The Internet, and networks in general, revolve around the passing of information between users distributed over some distance. It is, in this sense, first and foremost a communications tool. As a communications tool, it serves various functions, or provides various services, for its users.

Looking at these services in a vaguely historical order can give us a clearer look at what the Internet is and what it can do. It can also provide a base from which to talk about the Web and Web development, since the technologies of the World Wide Web are newer versions of the older technologies and information services that came before it. It is also helpful to discover that most of the Internet services out there are not the Web, but rather are their own technologies that either complement, form the basis of, or have been supplanted by the Web.

It should be noted that all Internet services are, in fact, Internet technologies. For the purposes of this course, I have chosen these terms to identify two aspects of the Internet. Technologies refer to what goes on behind the scenes. Services refer to tools or resources that users directly interact with. Services are primarily the software packages users use and the content they access with them.

These tutorials are perhaps the least complete of the collection, since they are designed to only provide as much material in total as I can cover in about one hour of lecturing in my classes.

These pages can be found at: [http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/]
Copyright 2003 -- Peter L. Kantor[kantopet@hvcc.edu]
Last Updated August 2003