Mailing lists or Listservs can be used to send one e-mail message to hundreds of other users who share common interests. Telnet allows users to access and control programs on remote computers. With telnet, educators and students can use the most powerful computers in the world without leaving their classrooms. A teacher can use FTP to get software and files from a vast collection of computer archives on the Internet. FTP can also be used to transfer World Wide Web files from a local computer to a remote server so that information can be shared with the world.
Gopher allows users to navigate the Internet in a menu-like fashion.
With Gopher, one can move through information systems easily by selecting numbers from a menu. Gophers combine information from a number of sources, often worldwide, and present it all together on one menu. A user can traverse the world and never realize it. The World Wide Web allows users to navigate the Internet in a hypermedia format. With web browsers, a user can see information in a multimedia format.