Delivered to your desktop for a tenner a month, it has something to say about everything. If it was all printed out in the same format as PC Magazine , then it would fill around 150,000 copies, or take up over 3km of shelf space. But the Web has its own rules, its own way of doing things. To use it well, you mustn't think of it as just another magazine, because that omits the finest benefits and the most perilous pitfalls. For starters, the Web is dynamic.
Sites appear and disappear overnight.
Within those sites, redesigns and restructurings blow through like hurricanes, revealing new data and hiding other information. It's also worth finding those sites that keep information on large databases, such as Microsoft's Knowledge Index, because the contents of these will elude search engines. Another good way of keeping tabs on the Web is to belong to Usenet newsgroups appropriate to your interests. URLs are frequently posted here, and with most browsers it's just a matter of clicking on the quoted link to check out the site. The motto here is use it or lose it.