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Introduction
A Cornucopia Of Services
The Internet contains many diverse services. An individual can transfer, browse, or search for information, make purchases, or interact with other users. Internet services handle all forms of digital information, including text, sound, graphic images, real-time audio or video, and multimedia combinations.
New Services Appear Regularly
The Internet is still changing. Internet researchers continue to discover new ways to store, communicate, reference, and access information.

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Flexibility Permits Change
The basic communication technology used in the Internet is extremely flexible. It supports a wide variety of computers and services that had not been invented when the technology was being developed.
A Digital Library
Card Catalogs And Search Tools
Unlike a traditional library that used a card catalog, a digital library contains many index mechanisms and provides services that use the mechanisms to search for information. As a result, a given piece of information can be located several ways.

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Internet Services Can Be Integrated
Although each Internet service has been designed independently, services can be combined in interesting ways. A given service can access information available from other services.
Mr. Dewey, Where Are You?
Because each computer on the Internet that offers a service can organize information however it chooses, there is little uniformity.
Information In The Digital Library
What Is The Internet?

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Terms
definition of the Internet
digital library