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95. What type of services or resources does the Internet provide?
One of the main attractions of the Internet is the services and resources that are avail-
able from it. Some of the services include e-mail, remote logins, file transfers, network
news—an electronic forum that consists of special interest groups and discussions (there
are currently over 35,000 network news groups that cover a very wide and diverse number
of topics), search tools or “engines” that allow a user to locate specific information based
on user input, communication resources such as Instant Messaging and Internet Relay
Chat (IRC), interacti ...