I know a lot about Eve Andersson. She has even written a poem about it. I did not learn all about Eve by talking to her. Corporations large and small may be rushing the Net to establish their own billboards in cyberspace, but the Web is more than ever a vibrant Turkish bazaar of thousands of personal home pages. A home page is the introductory page to a Web site, the book cover, in a sense, to a digital collection of words, images, even sound and video clips, and links to other Web sites that anyone with a computer, a modem, Web browser software, and an Internet connection can access with the click of a mouse.
Some home pages are fascinating, funny, and oddly moving explorations of their authors' lives.
Philip Greenspun, a graduate student at MIT, uses his home page to publish Travels with Samantha, his book-length manuscript about his wanderings around North America with his Apple Macintosh computer. On June 28, Prodigy began posting text-only personal home pages of some of its 2 million subscribers, and promises full graphics later this summer. America Online will soon offer similar options. Before you begin, take a look at what's out there. If you want to see some of the more graphically interesting home pages, use Netscape's Navigator, still the browser of choice for most serious Web surfers.