Internet On-Ramp: Internet language creeps into everyday life

Here’s a sampling of terms that will be useful on the Internet:

E-mail – the most popular of all Internet services that enables you to send electronic mail to other connected Internauts, regardless of where they’re located or what type of computer they use. Everyone on the Internet has an e-mail address.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) – used to transfer files to and from an Internet host computer to your computer. You’ll commonly hear the term used as a verb, as in “Where can I go to FTP that agenda of last year’s entrepreneur’s conference?”

Gopher – a search retrieval system linked up…