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INCREDIBLE!

My little Web site -- operated in my spare time, on 10 Mbytes of free disk space that I get with on SLIP account on TIAC -- just made the Top 50 list, as one of the best web sites in the world.

Check the September 1995 issue of NetGuide (a CMP publication).

The cover story is "The Ultimate Hot list -- the 50 Best Places to Go Online." "The 50 Best Web Sites"

On p. 52, it reads --

What: B&R Samizdat Express

Where: http://www.samizdat.com/

Why: Time's Pathfinder site (http://www.pathfinder.com/ ) demonstrates why the megalith media companies will remain influential. This sites is the Web home of B&R Samizdat Express, an e-mail newsletter that points to many of the more idealistic efforts that flourish on the net even as jazzier commercial areas proliferate. Here you'll find pointers to new e-texts available by FTP, gopher, WWW and listserv at such sources as The Gutenberg Project (http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/pg_home.html ) and Columia University's Project Bartleby (http://www.columbia.edu/~svl2 ). There are also references to sites devoted to the blind and disabled and an archive of back issues of B&R Samizdat Express, with links to all the sites mentioned.

Wonk Factor: Richard Seltzer, the newsletter's creator, realizes that not everyone has full access to cyberspace, so he has put classics such as The Red Badge of Courage on floppy disks that can be purchased for $10 . He encourages copying.

Wow Factor: More literature can be accessed from these 10 megabytes of server space than our great-grandfathers were likely to find in a lifetime.

Among the other sites mentioned:

Yahoo

SiFi Channel

Global Network Navigator

ESPN

MIT's Media Lab

This honor came as quite a shock. Not only do I operate this on minimal free Web space, but also I have no graphics at all. This is an all-text, all-content Web site. And I do the html conversion using free software (Microsoft's Internet Assistant).

And we're competing with the likes of Disney, Time, Britannica -- all the major media and publishing companies in the world. It's good that the little guys can still get recognition on the Internet.

Richard Seltzer

home seltzer@samizdat.com

office (my day job at Digital Equipment's Internet Business Group) seltzer@mail.dec.com (508) 467-2807

PS -- The no graphics is not a matter of principle, but rather of necessity. I run this on a shoestring because a shoestring is all I have.

Can we help you build an Internet business? Richard Seltzer is an independent Internet writer/speaker/consultant. Click here for details. or send email to seltzer@samizdat.com

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