What are FTP, Telnet, Gopher and Mosaic?
These are Internet applications. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was originally developed to allow Internet users to share files across the Internet. Telnet was developed for terminals to access hosts across the Internet. Gopher (as in “GO FOR” information) was developed to provide an easy to use hierarchical menu/directory paradigm that is well suited for users of personal computers and workstations. Mosaic is the name of the first widely popular World Wide Web (WWW) browser. The WWW is a hypertext information system that provides a point-and-click interface to the Internet has proved to be as easy to use as the point-and-click graphical user interfaces of the Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, and UNIX X-Windows System. Another very important Internet application is Network News, also known as USENET news (after the USENET Unix association that manages the USENET newsgroup hierarchy) and sometimes known by its protocol, the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). The most
