A guide to the Internet which describes how to get started and offers recommendations about which stockists to approach and what questions to ask to ensure that what you buy will provide what you expect. It also introduces the service providers and includes a directory of selected web sites.

And the accompanying Netscape/BT CD will allow the most straightforward access to the Internet, highlighting the Guardian's own newly created sites. With a directory of useful, entertaining or sometimes plain weird web sites for you to explore, this is the best guide around to the virtual world that is all around us: the Internet. Welcome aboard.