How does the Web relate to Email, Telnet, Chat, etc.?
The web is one kind of transmission protocol over the internet. Many others are possible. Email uses its own separate protocol (SMTP or POP). Telnet has its own, and so does FTP. Telnet is used to connect to a remote computer and use it as if it were on your desktop. You need permission from the remote computer of course (usually an account name and password, but some accept “guests”). FTP is used to transfer files of any kind between computers (again with permission, but Anonymous FTP is often used to download publicly available files; use your email address as the password). Chat is also a protocol (IRC), used to allow several people to type messages to one another as if they were in the same room together. Related but more complex are MUDs and MOOs, in which imaginary rooms and objects as well as communicating people are connected to one another. In principle all these other protocols can be integrated into the interactive functions of websites and webpages, sometimes by embedding a
