Ah, 1997!

Since we’ll be forcibly separated from the Internet for most of the day, we’re leaving you with a little walk down memory lane. FishbowlNY presents: excerpts from Your Personal Net Guide: Your Complete Guide to the Internet and Online Services, a Michael Wolff Book. (“If you are a netmaniac and feel every second you spend offline is time squandered, then this book has everything you need—you can’t use your computer to check out new Web sites when you are in the bath, bed, or on a bus.”)

The New York Times on the Web: “The New York Times on the Web features the solid Times analysis and writing, which make it worth a stop, but the site lives up to its print parent’s reputation for lousy layouts. One front page screen, for example, shows the day’s top headlines, sans stories, laid out as attractively as a ransom note…The Times on the Web is free for now, but judging from the elaborate password system, the gates may soon come crashing down.”

Time Warner’s Pathfinder: “Pathfinder packs the entire Time Warner empire’s publishing output onto one page, and sometimes it’s difficult to know just where to click…”

Georgemag.com: “It certainly isn’t politics as usual at this rag with an unrepentant predilection for parody…”

Omnimag.com: “…In the Omni Mandate the editors express the vision of the ‘zine which is currently being reorganized and expanded to provide a ‘completely interactive habitat that taps the full potential of cyberspace’ and will ‘shed the tether of print for the medium of the future’…”

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