24 lessons is quick-and-easy teaching really clean, especially outside of the Web to the point where readers will be more at home with more than a virtual world than many who have been online for months. From there they build the knowledge piece by piece, adding in the understanding of e-mail, chat, file transfer, Internet telephony and video conferencing, Web, online services, mailing lists, newsgroups, and more. They discuss the various browsers, the questions to ask your Internet Service Provider, Web navigation and online research facilities. If you want to not only bring someone up to speed on the mechanism of using the Internet, but also provides them with a correct understanding of the Internet, this book makes it easy.