ear that the purchase of computers outpaced the purchase of television sets! The use of the Internet for email will continue to increase. This will also take the form of video conferencing. The speed and low cost of both of these systems make contact between family and student or between corporations and their clients a very desirable advantage of the Internet. No discussion about the Internet's future would be complete without a quick look at the legal aspects. We have already seen an attempt by the government to censor content on the Internet. The recent Telecommuni- cations Act called for criminal penalties for certain obscene material provided to the Internet. This was struck down by the Supreme Court, but look for more attempts to regulate this new media. In addition, the concerns about intellectual property and copyright infringement are already being addressed. Many Internet users"use material on their Web sites without permission from their creators. This applies to music licenses for entertain ment, reprints of news stories and books, cartoons, artists creations, and copyrighted research. Be careful in this area. The larger the pockets of the user, the more apt they are to be sued for copyright infringement. As the years go by, you will see many new regulations and judicial decisions in favor of the creators of this material. Finally, the anonymity for Internet users, the personal soap box it offers, and the ability to gather even the most obscure interest groups together in the privacy of their very own home means a huge use of the Internet for personal expression. This new technology will be as great, if not greater, an influence on world society tha television has been. Your predictions on its future are as good as mine Defining Terms The following list of terms is based in large part from the published list compiled by Academic Computing Services, University of Kansas, and is reprinted with their permission Anonymous FTP: Used to log into public access file sites and download files by logging in the user name anonymous Archie: A search system for locating publicly available files by anonymous FTP ARPA: The United States Advanced Research Projects Agency was the original source for the development of network to inter-connect ARPAnet: The original inter-connecting network that was the basis for the Internet. ASCIl: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An industry-wide computer standard for the encoding of numeric characters ASCII file: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A file type where characters are stored as a series of eight binary digits(A=01000001) Buad rate: The primary signaling rate of a carrier. A 9600"baud"modem transfers data at 2400 baud,but the signal rate is 4 bits per cycle allowing for a transfer rate of 9600 bps. Baud and bps are used synonymously but they not the same BBS: Bulletin board system. An electronic multi-user system that often includes a message database people login to and lea binary file: A file in which all 8 bits of a byte are used to encode information. Binary is also a file transfer type used for zip and executable files in ftp BITNET: An academically oriented international network using a different protocol than the Internet, although email may be exchanged via gateways. a typical BITNET address might look like joe@ukanvm ps: Bits per second. Bridge: A connection using software or hardware to connect two segments of a network not necessarily using Browser: any program that reads hypertext. Mosaic Lynx, and Netscape Navigator are browser clients used to access world wide web sites network(Think of your telephone as the client and the telephone company as the server ere on the Client: A software application that exists to extract some service from a remote server somewl Compression: A utility used on many platforms to make files smaller for transport. On a Mac common compression formats are sit(use Stuffit to uncompress)or cpx(use Compact Pro to uncompress).On a PC, zip is common(use pkunzip to uncompress e 2000 by CRC Press LLC© 2000 by CRC Press LLC year that the purchase of computers outpaced the purchase of television sets! The use of the Internet for email will continue to increase. This will also take the form of video conferencing. The speed and low cost of both of these systems make contact between family and student or between corporations and their clients a very desirable advantage of the Internet. No discussion about the Internet’s future would be complete without a quick look at the legal aspects. We have already seen an attempt by the government to censor content on the Internet. The recent Telecommuni￾cations Act called for criminal penalties for certain obscene material provided to the Internet. This was struck down by the Supreme Court, but look for more attempts to regulate this new media. In addition, the concerns about intellectual property and copyright infringement are already being addressed. Many Internet users “use” material on their Web sites without permission from their creators. This applies to music licenses for entertain￾ment, reprints of news stories and books, cartoons, artists creations, and copyrighted research. Be careful in this area. The larger the pockets of the user, the more apt they are to be sued for copyright infringement. As the years go by, you will see many new regulations and judicial decisions in favor of the creators of this material. Finally, the anonymity for Internet users, the personal soap box it offers, and the ability to gather even the most obscure interest groups together in the privacy of their very own home means a huge use of the Internet for personal expression. This new technology will be as great, if not greater, an influence on world society than television has been. Your predictions on its future are as good as mine. Defining Terms The following list of terms is based in large part from the published list compiled by Academic Computing Services, University of Kansas, and is reprinted with their permission. Anonymous FTP: Used to log into public access file sites and download files by logging in the user name “anonymous” Archie: A search system for locating publicly available files by anonymous FTP. ARPA: The United States Advanced Research Projects Agency was the original source for the development of a network to inter-connect computers. ARPAnet: The original inter-connecting network that was the basis for the Internet. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An industry-wide computer standard for the encoding of numeric characters. ASCII file: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A file type where characters are stored as a series of eight binary digits (A=01000001). Buad rate: The primary signaling rate of a carrier. A 9600 “baud” modem transfers data at 2400 baud, but the signal rate is 4 bits per cycle allowing for a transfer rate of 9600 bps. Baud and bps are used synonymously but they not the same. BBS: Bulletin board system. An electronic multi-user system that often includes a message database people can login to and leave messages for a particular group. binary file: A file in which all 8 bits of a byte are used to encode information. Binary is also a file transfer type used for .zip and executable files in ftp. BITNET: An academically oriented international network using a different protocol than the Internet, although email may be exchanged via gateways. A typical BITNET address might look like joe@ukanvm. bps: Bits per second. Bridge: A connection using software or hardware to connect two segments of a network not necessarily using the same protocol. Browser: any program that reads hypertext. Mosaic, Lynx, and Netscape Navigator are browser clients used to access World Wide Web sites. Client: A software application that exists to extract some service from a remote server somewhere on the network. (Think of your telephone as the client and the telephone company as the server). Compression: A utility used on many platforms to make files smaller for transport. On a Mac common compression formats are .sit (use Stuffit to uncompress) or .cpx (use Compact Pro to uncompress). On a PC, .zip is common (use pkunzip to uncompress)