3. Study the services given in the table below:
| Email
| electronic mail
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| Usenet
| user network
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| Newsgroups
| groups of users who send and read messages on a particular topic
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| Real-time
| immediately, while users are logged on to the system
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| IRC
| Internet relay chat
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| FTP
| file transfer protocol
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| Telnet
| telephone network
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| MOOs
| Multi-user domain that is object-oriented
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| Log On
| connect to a network system account, normally using a password
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| Browse
| move from webpage to webpage
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| WWW
| the World Wide Web commonly referred to as the Web
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4. What do we use these services for? Read the descriptions carefully and match the service with the usage. Begin with “We use …”
| Email
| for
| taking part in simulations in a shared environment. Each person assumes a persona and communicates using text messages
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| Usenet
| chatting to other users using text messages in real time
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| Newsgroups
| Browsing linked documents known as webpages.
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| FTP
| logging on to your local server from across a network communications system at a distance e.g. from another country
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| Telnet
| copying files e.g. program files, between computers on a network. Copying files from a server computer to a client computer is known as downloading and copying from a client to a server is uploading
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| WWW
| accessing newsgroups
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| IRC
| sending and receiving text messages
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