With ICQ, you can chat, send messages, files and URL's, play games, or just hang out with your fellow 'Netters' while still surfing the Net.

Cute FTP is an easy to use file transfer program

If you don't want to use the news group readers that are part of Netscape or  Internet Explorer this is an easy to use shareware program

Morpheus the file sharing software that wants to replace Napser, but beware !!!!! The free edition of Morpheus contains spyware to assault you with pop-ups , ads, and tracking as to where you have been

KaZoA; another variation of Napser but not as widely used. Here, too, beware of the spyware hidden within its bowels and surfer tracking logs sent and sold to many third parties.

A free software program to rid your computer of those incriminating “cookies” and all that spyware and adware loaded onto your machine by the latter two file sharing programs