Publication
While some Internet protocols, such as Telnet,
have been developed mainly to allow specific users
to connect with specific services, other protocols
have been developed to allow information to be published
to anyone on the 'net. Access controls have been developed
to allow authors and administrators to limit the authorized
users, but these protocols are primarily designed for a
broad, relatively uncontrolled user base.
The earliest means of publishing information on line was
based on the existing File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and
is termed Anonymous FTP. An early attempt to provide
hypertext linking between documents was Gopher, but
hypertext really came to life via the World Wide Web and
its protocols. At the end of the 1990s, streaming
media came into widespread use, allowing better
publication of realtime content such as video and audio.