Internet

A schematic representation of Internet could be the local network outline of an extended to the whole world building, that means millions of computers among 47 countries. Information retrieval systems that are available on Internet are enormous, so powerful tools have to be set up for control. The creation of Renater network offers them to the French research community. Basic services concern e-mail, remote connections, file transfer. Then, new tools will be described, such as Wais, Gopher, WWW, by examples, that show their easy use as well as their retrieval power.
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