[Providing Internet-based information services at the 2nd Medical School of Charles University]

Development of the internet network at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University from one of the first nodes of Prague Academic Network up to a complicated infrastructure with many client computers is accompanied with a corresponding development of information services available in this network. For today's users, infrastructure of the network is hidden behind the services whose technical details are not significant. The paper deals with history, current state and possible perspectives of information services (both basic as e-mail, WWW and more advanced like specialized database server, proxy, etc.) available to users at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine--taking into account the development of information technologies, networking infrastructure and the possibilities and limitations of co-operation between the faculty and its teaching hospital.