When you are logged onto a computer through your modem, you are said to be online. When you are using your computer but are not connected to a computer through your modem, you are said to be working offline. Posts Email messages sent to a mailing list or Usenet newsgroup to be read by subscribers or others on the Internet. Online documents that have to do with technical standards for the Internet. Internet connections Both allow a computer to connect to the Internet using a modem and telephone line.
Users then navigate the Internet using software on their own computer.
This is in contrast to using a Dialup Internet Connection, where a user is forced to navigate the Net using a text-based set of menus. Signature file Return address information such as name, phone number, and email address that users put at the bottom of email messages. Telnet Allows users to access computers and their data at thousands of places around the world, most often at libraries, universities, and government agencies. The user must use Unix commands to navigate the Internet. Unix A computer operating system commonly used on the Internet.