diff --git a/doc/api/_toc.markdown b/doc/api/_toc.markdown
index 1c1f0712f6..73e6b9bd58 100644
--- a/doc/api/_toc.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/_toc.markdown
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 * [Utilities](util.html)
 * [Events](events.html)
 * [Buffer](buffer.html)
-* [Streams](streams.html)
+* [Stream](stream.html)
 * [Crypto](crypto.html)
 * [TLS/SSL](tls.html)
 * [String Decoder](string_decoder.html)
diff --git a/doc/api/all.markdown b/doc/api/all.markdown
index 60c4ade3f0..7b7f736956 100644
--- a/doc/api/all.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/all.markdown
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 @include util
 @include events
 @include buffer
-@include streams
+@include stream
 @include crypto
 @include tls
 @include string_decoder
diff --git a/doc/api/fs.markdown b/doc/api/fs.markdown
index 37dcc4124c..755271bfef 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/fs.markdown
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ An example to read the last 10 bytes of a file which is 100 bytes long:
 
 ## Class: fs.ReadStream
 
-`ReadStream` is a [Readable Stream](streams.html#readable_Stream).
+`ReadStream` is a [Readable Stream](stream.html#readable_stream).
 
 ### Event: 'open'
 
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ default mode `w`.
 
 ## fs.WriteStream
 
-`WriteStream` is a [Writable Stream](streams.html#writable_Stream).
+`WriteStream` is a [Writable Stream](stream.html#writable_stream).
 
 ### Event: 'open'
 
diff --git a/doc/api/http.markdown b/doc/api/http.markdown
index c2a6c8989a..70bc267a2b 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/http.markdown
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ no limit will be applied.
 This object is created internally by a HTTP server -- not by
 the user -- and passed as the first argument to a `'request'` listener.
 
-The request implements the [Readable Stream](streams.html#readable_Stream)
+The request implements the [Readable Stream](stream.html#readable_stream)
 interface. This is an `EventEmitter` with the following events:
 
 ### Event: 'data'
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ authentication details.
 This object is created internally by a HTTP server--not by the user. It is
 passed as the second parameter to the `'request'` event.
 
-The response implements the [Writable  Stream](streams.html#writable_Stream)
+The response implements the [Writable  Stream](stream.html#writable_stream)
 interface. This is an `EventEmitter` with the following events:
 
 ### Event: 'close'
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ event, the entire body will be caught.
 Note: Node does not check whether Content-Length and the length of the body
 which has been transmitted are equal or not.
 
-The request implements the [Writable  Stream](streams.html#writable_Stream)
+The request implements the [Writable  Stream](stream.html#writable_stream)
 interface. This is an `EventEmitter` with the following events:
 
 ### Event 'response'
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ will be called.
 This object is created when making a request with `http.request()`. It is
 passed to the `'response'` event of the request object.
 
-The response implements the [Readable Stream](streams.html#readable_Stream)
+The response implements the [Readable Stream](stream.html#readable_stream)
 interface. This is an `EventEmitter` with the following events:
 
 
diff --git a/doc/api/net.markdown b/doc/api/net.markdown
index 7923706567..6c66364e78 100644
--- a/doc/api/net.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/net.markdown
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ See `connect()`.
 
 Emitted when data is received.  The argument `data` will be a `Buffer` or
 `String`.  Encoding of data is set by `socket.setEncoding()`.
-(See the [Readable Stream](streams.html#readable_Stream) section for more
+(See the [Readable Stream](stream.html#readable_stream) section for more
 information.)
 
 Note that the __data will be lost__ if there is no listener when a `Socket`
diff --git a/doc/api/streams.markdown b/doc/api/stream.markdown
similarity index 98%
rename from doc/api/streams.markdown
rename to doc/api/stream.markdown
index b542de066e..0edf22fbd5 100644
--- a/doc/api/streams.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/stream.markdown
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-# Streams
+# Stream
 
 A stream is an abstract interface implemented by various objects in Node.
 For example a request to an HTTP server is a stream, as is stdout. Streams
 are readable, writable, or both. All streams are instances of `EventEmitter`.
 
+You can load up the Stream base class by doing `require('stream')`.
+
 ## Readable Stream
 
 <!--type=class-->
diff --git a/doc/api/tls.markdown b/doc/api/tls.markdown
index a0fd05fc4b..62a18e2841 100644
--- a/doc/api/tls.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/tls.markdown
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ The number of concurrent connections on the server.
 This is a stream on top of the *Encrypted* stream that makes it possible to
 read/write an encrypted data as a cleartext data.
 
-This instance implements a duplex [Stream](streams.html#streams) interfaces.
+This instance implements a duplex [Stream](stream.html) interfaces.
 It has all the common stream methods and events.
 
 A ClearTextStream is the `clear` member of a SecurePair object.