What is available on the Web?

Currently the Web offers the following through a hypertext, and in some cases, hypermedia interface:

• Anything served through Gopher

• Anything served through WAIS (Wide-Area Information Servers)

• Anything served through anonymous FTP sites

• Full Archie services (a FTP search service)

• Full Veronica services (a Gopher search service)

• Full CSO, X.500, and whois services (Internet phone book services)

• Full finger services (an Internet user lookup program)

• Anything on Usenet

• Anything accessible through telnet

• Anything in hytelnet (a hypertext interface to telnet)

• Anything in techinfo or texinfo (forms of campus- wide information services)

• Anything in hyper-g (a networked hypertext system in use throughout Europe)

• Anything in the form of man pages

• HTML-formatted hypertext and hypermedia documents