Learn about the internet

• Web at a glance
• Web browsers
• Anatomy of a web page
• Understanding web addresses
• Domain names
• Decoding error messages
• How the web works
• Bookmarks and Favorites 

Some starter sites

• Yahoo maps
• Yahoo people search
• Merriam-Webster dictionary
• Learn the Net

All about Email

• All about email
• How it works
• Hotmail free email
• Yahoo mail  also free
• Anatomy of an email message 
• Understanding email addresses
• Step-by-Step: sending an email message
• Web-based email

Looking for information 

• Finding information
• How search engines work
• Searching the web

The best search engines (my opinion)

• Google
• Yahoo

and some others

• AltaVista
• Ask Jeeves