If you've arrived here, you already know something about using the Internet! You are probably viewing this information using a browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you need more information about using your particular browser, start by looking at the browser's "Help" menu.

Yenza! provides information about using many - but not all - of the most common Internet tools; other starting points are listed below.

• General resources
• Glossaries
• Histories of the Internet
• Internet demography

General Resources

The highly-rated Beginners' Central provides an excellent online tutorial for beginners, covering the whole range of Internet basics including Net myths and hoaxes:
http://northernwebs.com/bc/

Learn the Net covers topics ranging from getting started and Internet basics to web publishing and multimedia. The site is also searchable:
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Microsoft's Internet Guide and Web Tutorial offers an introduction to the World Wide Web, browsers and other Internet tools:
http://www.microsoft.com/magazine/guides/internet/default.htm

The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) web site features a Guide to Network Resource Tools which covers common networking tasks and how to address them, what tools are available and how to find them:
http://www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/

The University of Queensland's QUIK-it site offers online modules on using your browser, communicating on the Internet, finding information and creating a web site. The modules include self-test quizzes:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/quik-it/contents.html

The African Gender Institute and Women'sNet have produced a pamphlet on Getting Connected to the Internet which explains basic Internet terminology, outlines some of the potential uses of the Internet for networking and activism, and offers links to relevant resources:
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/progproj/clip/getcon1.htm

Glossaries of Internet Terms

Matisse Enzer's Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Beginners' Central:
http://northernwebs.com/bc/bc90.html

Webopedia
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/

Histories of the Internet

The United States Library of Congress has a page of links to online histories of the Internet:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/internet/history.html

The Internet Society also offers links to information about the history of the Internet:
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

Internet Demography

The most useful source of information about Internet connectivity, demographics and usage is Nua, an Irish Internet strategy and research and development company. The Nua surveys site collates information by category and by region:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi

CyberGeography, from University College London, offers a Geography of Cyberspace Directory, an Atlas of Cyberspaces and a Cyber-Geography mailing list:
http://www.cybergeography.org/