The Internet Terms

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4. Backbone A central network connecting other networks together. Formerly a network run by the National Science Foundation for the US, there are now multiple backbones run by commercial providers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, and AT&T.

5. BBS (Bulletin Board System) -- A computerized meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements without the people being connected to the computer at the same time. There are many thousands (millions?) of BBS's around the world, most are very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. Some are very large and the line between a BBS and a system like CompuServe gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn

6. BITNET (Because It's Time NETwork (or Because It's There NETwork)) -- A network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET ...

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The top-level domain at the right is the most general; each term to the left is more specific.
A recent international meeting approved the use of seven new top-level domain names, first planned for implementation in March 1998. The date was not met.
· firm
· store
· web
· arts
· rec
· nom
· info
The US government plan announced on January 30, 1998, to take effect in April 1998 indicated that five new domain names would be supported, but did not identify the domains. The date was not met, and implementation is still in question. A new plan is expected in the very near future.

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13. DownloadTo transfer a file from another system to your own computer ...

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