| Part 1 |
| The Internet Demystified | 9 |
| Some Notes About Using The Internet from A to Z | 13 |
| The Internet: An Introduction | 17 |
| What is the Internet? | 17 |
| A short history of the Net | 20 |
| Getting Connected | 30 |
| What equipment do you need to get connected to the Internet? | 30 |
| Operating system | 31 |
| Connecting to the Internet: modems, ISDN, ASDL, cable and satellite | 32 |
| How to get online | 34 |
| ISP listing | 41 |
| How is the Internet Structured? | 43 |
| The World Wide Web | 43 |
| Website design | 48 |
| The browser | 51 |
| Browsing offline | 58 |
| Saving Webpages permanently | 59 |
| Plug-ins and ActiveX controls | 61 |
| Tailoring your own Web use | 63 |
| Moving around the Web: hypertext linking | 65 |
| Restricting access to the Net | 66 |
| How to communicate better: Internet e-mail | 74 |
| About e-mail | 76 |
| e-mail and the spread of viruses | 82 |
| Which type of e-mail should I choose? | 84 |
| Spam, glorious spam | 92 |
| Finding e-mail addresses | 93 |
| e-mail culture | 94 |
| Mailing lists, newsgroups, chat and instant messaging | 95 |
| Searching the Internet | 107 |
| Search tools | 107 |
| Portal and hub sites | 121 |
| Specialist search sites | 123 |
| Searching | 124 |
| Using the Internet | 135 |
| What can I use the Internet for? | 135 |
| Shopping on the Net | 137 |
| Finding retail Websites | 141 |
| Broadcasting over the Internet | 149 |
| Music | 157 |
| Radio stations | 162 |
| Media players | 163 |
| Webcams | 167 |
| MIDI | 167 |
| Other things you can find on the Web | 168 |
| Culture and the arts | 168 |
| Education | 169 |
| Environmental issues and world concerns | 169 |
| Financial services | 170 |
| Health | 171 |
| Hobbies, sports, collectors | 172 |
| Silver surfers and kids | 172 |
| Mobile connections | 173 |
| Newspapers, magazines and journals | 174 |
| Politics | 174 |
| Property | 175 |
| Recruitment | 175 |
| Social Services and local information | 176 |
| Software | 177 |
| Stocks and shares | 178 |
| Transport | 181 |
| Travel | 181 |
| Voice communication | 183 |
| Part 2 |
| Internet Dictionary | 186 |
| Appendices | 454 |
| Index | 471 |
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