I'm almost positive Windows 95 came with a command-line FTP client. And a telnet client (a terminal whose purpose it is to connect to a telnet port in this case). It also came with ping, traceroute (named "tracert") and a few other things. Can't remember if nslookup was in Win95, but now we're getting too specific.

If anyone is using the internet, the should know the dfinitions for and the purpose for the following:

"DOMAIN"
WWW
HTML
HTTP
IP
DNS
PPP
POP3
SMTP
TLD
NNTP (less important to most people than the above)
FTP
BBS
MODEM

Now that's all pretty basic. I'm sure they'd all be covered in an "internet for dummies" type of book. What you don't need to know is what a "Napster" is.

There are less important terms that a large number of people might be interested in though such as:

IM
IRC (--->DCC)
VPN
SLIP
CSLIP
Proxy
Firewall

etc... Anyway, I still think the top list is the most basic that really anyone using the net on a regular basis should know. Especially if they ever want to set up their own connection, help anyone else toset up a connection or talk to anyone about problems they're having setting up a connection. And I didn't even mention really basic stuff like knowing the difference between UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD.

Bruno