Internet software

• Table: Internet software for three operating system families
• Web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox
• Browser Wars & history of browsers timeline
• Bookmarks managers
• Download manager
• POP email clients (client/server style)
• Web-mail systems (browser-based)
• Usenet newsreader
• FTP file transfer
• Internet chat - IM, IRC, VoIP, video conferencing
• Other protocols - time synch, telnet, Gopher, whois

Once you have an Internet account, you'll need Internet software to use on it, a Web browser plus a few others you might not be aware of.

For antivirus, personal firewall, and other security software, see my Antivirus page under PC maintenance.

I was conflicted about whether discussion of security software belonged here in the Internet software section or under About PCs. I decided to put it there, because antivirus software is needed even on PCs that never connect to the Internet.