18th May 2000

What's your favorite site in the whole wide world (or the World Wide Web, as the case may be)? Every one of us will have a different answer. For years, I've been reading print magazines and online reports covering the tech industry. Every once in a while, they'll come up with a 'best of' compilation. YAHOO.COM is at the top. So what? Ah, great... site X got a zillion more impressions than site Y. Why do I care? Some companies will go as far as to publish 'cool' URLs in a book -- but don't waste your money, even if you ARE a novice. You'll have already heard of most of them, anyway. The "yellow pages" concept was designed for phone numbers, not URLs. If you really want to know what's going on online, sweep the Usenet newsgroups (accessible through your ISP or through sites like REMARQ.COM).