The Online World resources handbook

Web/Internet tools and pointers http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v6.html
specifying an object on the Internet, such as a file or newsgroup.
Example using WWW: The URL format resource address is
This tells us:
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/index.html
the tool: http (see above)
the host: login.eunet.no
the path: /~presno/index.html
The first part of the URL, before the colon, specifies the access method. The part of the
URL after the colon is interpreted specific to the access method. In general, two slashes
after the colon show a machine name (machine:port is also valid).
A Gopher example: URL uses the following
gopher://nutmeg.ac.uk/archive/uunet/archive/Health.Care/report
/forward.txt
The URL tells us:
the tool: gopher
the host: nutmeg.ac.uk
the path: archive/uunet/archive/Health.Care/report
the file: forward.txt
A ftp example, showing site, directory, and file name:
ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet cmc.html
A telnet example:
telnet://database.carl.org/
The general format is: telnet://[@][:port]
A newsgroup example:
news:alt.bbs
A file example, showing site, directory, and file name:
file://localhost/mysub/mypage.html
Usenet
A global bulletin board, of sorts, in which millions of people exchange public
information on every conceivable topic. For more information, see Appendix 1.
See Appendix 1.
UUCP
VMS
Virtual Memory System. A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for
the VAX series from Digital Equipment.
Routers
Routers are the pathfinders of the Internet. Your stream of packets may pass through
large numbers of routers before they reach their destination.
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