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Joann wrote:

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>      1.  The Internet is a worldwide computer network and the way these
>      computers "communicate" is through different protocols (telnet, ftp,
>      mail, http...)
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As I train librarians, it is imperative that I explain the difference
between the Internet being 30 years old and the WWW being 7 years old.
Otherwise, a librarian might make the mistake of thinking the WEB could
find all the research on a topic they might need. The older protocols are
still heavily used in the library world to access the other 20+ years
of text documentation stored electronically.  So I have a "simple
explanation" document that I offer in my search classes to help with this
older terminology.  Here it is fyi:

(As I started on the Internet 20 years ago, I prefer the text world :+)

Gail Featheringham, MLS
MOLO Regional Library System
http://www.molo.lib.oh.us
feather@oplin.lib.oh.us

OLD INTERNET TERMINOLOGY FOR SEARCHING - PRE-WORLD WIDE WEB

Gopher - and Gopher Jewels  - a software tool developed at Univ. of
Minnesota that searches by subject. It "goes-fer" the information using
created menus that access network resources.

Archie - a system of computers that tracks the holdings at FTP sites on
the planet. You use archie   to search for files at FTP sites. Searches
FTP archives (take out the "v").

Veronica - Very easy rodent-oriented net-wide index to computerized
archives. Indexes gophers.
Veronica locates titles of Gopher items by keyword search.

Jughead - Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display.
1993.  Allows searching of one gopher at a time.

Hytelnet -  Hytelnet provides access to a database of Internet telnet
connects through hypertext.

FTP and Anonymous FTP - File Transfer Protocol

WAIS and CWIS - Wide Area Information Server and Campus Wide Information
Server. WAIS(tm) responds to natural language queries by searching indexes
of databases and retrieving resources.

E-Mail Use - you can use E-mail to do all these things.  See Dr. Bob
Rankins' Accessing the Internet by E-Mail.
http://www.cvfn.org/info/helpdesk/drbob1295.html

World Wide Web Search Terminology


Interface - something that is between you and the computer. It can be the
screen design, the software friendliness, or the access mode like a mouse.

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Robots or Knowbots - artificially intelligent software that automatically
searches for pre-programmed information

Spiders -  Spiders are a class of software programs that traverse network
                     hosts gathering information from and about resources.

Worms - a program that can duplicate itself

Crawlers -gathers indexes of the total contents of documents, as well as
                     URLs and titles (http://webcrawler.com)

Meta-Search or Super-Sites - Multiple searches being done at one time.
Super-sites are sites with a special subject/topic that index and offer
search engines particularly good for the topic.

Fuzzy Search - a search that produces results that are "close to" what you
are looking for - especially natural language searching.

Cookies - A Cookie is a little nugget of data that is sent to your browser
from a World Wide Web Server. This data is accepted by your browser,
checked for length, expiration date, path and domain then saved.