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Web: What next?
a COMDEX special report
Pulp Friction

The Internet crossed over to print last year, as newsstands overflowed with titles such as Internet Underground, The Net, CyberSurfer, NetGuide Live and Virtual City.

This year, the racks are virtually empty. With the notable exceptions of The Web and Yahoo Internet Life, most consumer-oriented print magazines covering the Net proved as unworthy an investment as their online counterparts.

A few titles claim to simply be on hiatus -- sort of like that Monty Python skit with the dead parrot, they're "not dead, just ... resting." Others, such as NetGuide and CyberSurfer, are completely defunct. Didn't any of them notice that even the geekworld's uber-magazine, Wired, failed to turn a profit last year?


Misses
 1. Push
 2. Windows CE
 3. 56K
 4. Cable Modem
 5. Web-TV
 6. Net Magazines
 7. Apple's Demise
 8. Mac Clones
 9. E-Cash
10. Comdex '96

Hits
 1. Dynamic HTML
 2. New Domains
 3. Metered Bandwidth
 4. Web-TV
 5. Rich Ads
 6. The Big Chill
 7. Middlemen
 8. Digital Detente
 9. Cybercommerce
10. Web standards
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