Everything you need to know about the Internet—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged.

Following an introduction on the huge differences the Internet has made to modern day life, the bulk of the book contains a much-expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of the Internet - as well as some of its more quirky and inconsequential aspects. Entries include ActiveX , ADSL, Arpanet, B2B, B2C, Backbone, Cookie, Copyleft, Cracker, Cybrarian,, Digerati, Drop-dialling, Emoticon, Encyption, Firewall, Flame, Frame relay, Groupware, HTML, Hypertext, Infomediary, ISDN, Java, Jini, Linkrot, Lurker, Moore's Law, Multicasting, Object oriented, Open source, Packet, PANS, PGP, Ping, Quicktime, Remailer, Router, RSA, Source code, Stickiness, TAG, Thin client, Tiger team, Unix, URL, Uuencode, Viewser, Vortal, Warez, Web ring, XML, Yahoo! and Zmodem.