Part one of term paper
PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most notably libraries and local BBS's. ...

Part two of term paper
... log into remote computer networks, whether the network being targeted for login is physically in the next room or halfway around the globe. A common program feature is the ability to emulate several diverse types of terminals-- ANSI, TTY, vt52, and more. In the early days of networking some ten to fifteen years ago, the "internet" more or less consisted of telnet, FTP (file transfer protocol), crude email programs, and news reading. Telnet made library catalogs, online services, bulletin ...