Created by Kęstutis Stankevičius II-06/3 2006/10/24 the Internet Most popular Internet Services Created by Kęstutis Stankevičius II-06/3 2006/10/24

Most popular Internet Services World Wide Web (WWW) Electronic Mail (E-mail) File transferring using FTP or P2P Newsgroups, email groups Chatting on IRC, Skype etc.. Audio and video Internet conferences Radio and video shows on the Net 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius World Wide Web The World Wide Web is a system for linking together and accessing files located on computers usually called servers located all over the world. You can browse different websites using links or search engines with which you can find your wanted information and do much more, because of http capability of sending all the available file formats. Most popular browsers in the market today are IE, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Firefox.. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius Electronic mail You can use e-mail to communicate with people all over the world at any time in much the same way you would use postal mail. However e-mail is much faster than postal mail, you just need an Internet connection and e-mail account which can have a lot of different features. Most popular Email clients are Outlook Express, Thunderbird, YAM, but often e-mail is used on the web with an interface called Webmail, such as GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius File transferring For files such as programs, documents, pictures and etc. a popular browser is enough for downloading them.. However, if you want to transfer files between computers you will need to search for an FTP or P2P client such as Total Commander, Filezilla, ApexDC++, BitTorrent or other software. Of course you can also use telnet or ssh service that allow people to login to one computer and then connect to another computer using very low resources. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius Newsgroups Usenet News is a large Internet bulletin-board-like system with thousands of discussion forums called newsgroups. You can access newsgroups through special news reading programs or even Google user groups feature. Internet mailing lists are discussion forums similar to newsgroups. However, unlike newsgroups, Internet mailing lists deliver messages directly to your email box. While anyone who has the right software and full Internet access can read messages posted to a newsgroup, only subscribers can read messages posted to a mailing list. Mailing lists are often moderated and tend to stay more on topic than newsgroups. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius Chatting on the Net Two or more people real-time communication form, when text information is being exchanged. “Talking” while writing computer text, which is send to all the chat participators. All the chat messages are seen on the computer screen. IRC – Internet relay chat system where you can get together with other users and chat on different channels publicly or privately if you want to. A channel is an apparent place “Room”, that has its own topic and subject. NetMeeting – Chatting using keyboard or voice and video transmission, now you can easily do it using Skype, due to it offers these services/features that is opened for anyone who has an internet connection. These services more often are integrated into the world wide web sites and is offered “virtually”. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius Internet conferences Conferences – it is one of the possibility to communicate using a computer not only between each other, but among loads of people. Sometimes conferences are called forums or newsgroups, but when transmitting video and audio through Internet got possible, having a good connection people can debate and discuss by seeing and hearing one another using a microfone and a web camera. Many serious companies saved a lot of money by using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, because it is much cheaper (or absolutely free) than talking through a telephone or a cell phone between each other. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Kęstutis Stankevičius Radio & video on the Net It is a quite new Internet service which requires a fast internet connection and a lot of people really got interested in this and the usage is rising every month. Many people everyday are watching video shows, clips, movies and etc. transmitted through the Internet.. Even more people are listening to Internet radio and some even transmit their own Internet radio stations with their music making a possibility for others to hear his or her music. 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

Internet service Providers Here is a list of some most popular ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in Lithuania. By going to the hyperlink on the table left you could get much more informaton about the company and services. www.zebra.lt Zebra www.skynet.lt Skynet www.satnet.lt Satnet www.mikrovisata.lt Mikrovisata www.omnitel.lt Omnitel www.bite.lt Bitė 18/11/21 Kęstutis Stankevičius

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