The Internet is a global network, connecting many smaller individual networks. All the departments on campus are then connected to a larger network in the DCCCD. The DCCCD network is connected to regional, national and international networks.

The Internet is also a set of "protocols" that allow you to communicate with people, move files between computers, and find and share information. The protocols you are likely to use are:

email

for communicating with people across the Internet

http

(hypertext transfer protocol) for making Web pages accessible

telnet

for logging into other computers such as databases and host computers

ftp

(file transfer protocol) for transferring files from one computer to another across the Internet