Introduction.

PART I: Welcome to the Internet.

Chapter 1: What Is the Net? What Is the Web?

Chapter 2: The Internet at Home, at Work, at School, at Play.

Chapter 3: The Net, Your Kids, and You.

PART II: Internet, Here I Come!

Chapter 4: Picking Your Internet Service.

Chapter 5: Online and On Your Way.

PART III: Web Mania.

Chapter 6: Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web.

Chapter 7: Wrangling with the Web.

Chapter 8: Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net.

Chapter 9: More Shopping, Less Dropping.

Chapter 10: My First Home Page.

PART IV: Essential Internet.

Chapter 11: Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither.

Chapter 12: Putting Your Mail in Its Place.

Chapter 13: Mail, Mail, the Gang's All Here.

Chapter 14: Instant Messages, for When a Minute Just Isn't Soon Enough.

Chapter 15: Let's Get Together and Chat.

Chapter 16: Swiping Files from the Net.

Chapter 17: AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong?

Chapter 18: Tuning In with Web TV.

PART V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Ten Frequently Asked Questions.

Chapter 20: Ten Types of Files and What to Do with Them.

Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Find E-Mail Addresses.

Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz.

Glossary.

Appendix: About the CD.

Index.

Book Registration Information.