The Net in '96

        According to The Netly News (http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/spoofcentral/year.in.review/), the following were the top stories on the Internet for 1996.

        1. The CDA and NetDecency
        2. Push Media is born
        3. Privacy under siege
        4. SYN Floods and WebVandals
        5. The Browser Wars escalate
        6. TVs go online
        7. Pierre Salinger skewered by net rumor
        8. Quake blasts off
        9. Online Services shakeup
        10. Timothy Leary kicks the bit bucket

        People voting in the 1996 "Best of the Web" competition at http://botw.org/1996/awards.html came up with the following recommendations:

        • Best Campus-Wide Information Service: College of Family and Consumer Sciences, U. of Georgia (http://www.fcs.uga.edu)
        • Best Educational Site: Discovery Channel On-Line (http://www.discovery.com)
        • Best Commercial Site: Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com)
        • Most Important Concept: Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
        • Best Design: The Spot (http://www.thespot.com)
        • Best Entertainment Site: X-Files (http://www.thex-files.com)
        • Best Use of Interaction: Silicon Graphics (http://www.sgi.com)
        • Best Logo: ESPNET (http://espnet.sportszone.com)
        • Best Multimedia: White House Home Page (http://www.whitehouse.gov)
        • Best Navigation Aid: Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
        • Best Professional Site: MacInTouch (http://www.macintouch.com)
        • Most Technical Merit: Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com)


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