for one-way
fetching of files: Archie, Gopher, FTP
e-mail
discussion
groups, also known as 'newsgroups', although they don't deal with
news in the normal sense of the word
the web started
to be developed c. 1990 as a way of using the international network
of computers as a means of publishing. Since the web's software,
mainly Netscape and Explorer, have more and more integrated the other
functions, there is a tendency to use the two terms as
synonymous.
WHAT DO THE TERMS
MEAN?
