This book is packed with over 800 pages of delightfully plain-English answers, tips, and explanations, it's the first place to turn to know how to: Select the latest hardware and software to go and work online; Use the Web, Usenet newsgroups, gopher, and anonymous ftp; Communicate via e-mail, web chat rooms, IRC, muds, and more; Handle client programs such as pine, pico, lynx, tin, archie, telenet, and talk; Download, decompress, and decode thousands of Windows, DOS, Mac, and Unix files and applications; Master Net lingo--from arch to POP to zipfile; Much, much more.