This means that your keyboard and screen are effectively directly connected to the remote system. Many information bases, for example libraries, allow you to log in without a password. So you have an enormous selection of information at your fingertips. You can connect to and log in to host systems on the Internet using a Telnet program. Telnet programs are available for Windows, Unix and Apple Macintoshes.
Many sites hold files which are publicly available, such as program libraries, data sets etc.
Access to these files is often via anonymous ftp . Files can be transferred from Internet hosts in several ways. For example, you can connect to anonymous ftp sites using the Web. Various ftp programs are available for Windows. You can also use the ftp command on Unix systems.