PROTOCOL SHELF
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REFERENCE NOTE

The networked world has always contained more than one conversational shape.

HTTP   Web resource transfer
Gopher menu/document retrieval
IRC    real-time channels and direct chat
SMTP   mail transfer
IMAP   mailbox access
FTP    file transfer
SSH    secure remote login and transport
NNTP   Usenet/news distribution

A healthy independent Internet can mix protocols. Nitetime.net does exactly that
with Web pages, Gopher, IRC, BBS/MUD experiments, radio/streaming ideas and other
services.