The Internet Complete Reference

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.