Internet Networking Websites, provide email, voice over IP, instant messaging, and social networking applications based on the Internet Protocols. In Amateur Radio, besides direct keyboard-to-keyboard realtime "transmisions" (eg: PSK311), there are several amateur radio specific "Computer-to-Computer Radio Networking" schemes, the "Packet BBS Forwarding Network", APRS 2,etc.

Internet Networks have developed its own specialized amateur radio protocol. However, application-specific protocols often lack a generality to allow the network to be efficiently adapted to different uses,and many are dependent on specific features of the underlying transport mechanism. Networks can be difficult to add new features to an existing narrowly defined protocol.