Short for Frequently Asked Questions, FAQs (pronounced, "fax") are available on hundreds of topics -- from "Beverly Hills 90210" to Windows 95. You can find them all over the Web and on Usenet . Need to know if Tori Spelling really had that boob job? Well, read the FAQ. Frankly, the folks in the alt.tv.bh90210 newsgroup are pretty darn tired of answering that question.

This is what discussion groups are called on Compuserve and some other services.

Short for File Transfer Protocol, this is the Internet service used to move files from one computer to another or from one network to another.

Gateways help transfer data between two incompatible networks -- sort of like translators for computers that speak different languages.

No, it's not a rodent! This is a menu-driven way to browse through files on a network.