Internet Roadside Attractions: Sites, Sounds & Scenes Along the Information Superhighway

by Gareth Branwyn, Sean Carton, Luke Duncan

A book/CD-ROM directory of services, information, and points of interest on the Internet, culled from the personal favorites of seven veteran travellers, including writers and editors of Wired and bOING bOING magazines. Offers descriptions of sites on games, animation, erotica, cyberculture, zines, vampires, Star Trek, and environment. The appendix explains World Wide Web and Mosaic basics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic.

He has covered technology, media, DIY, and cyberculture for Wired, Esquire, the Baltimore Sun, Details, and numerous other publications. He was an editor at Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing (when it was a print zine), founded the personal tech site, StreetTech.com, and worked for MAKE magazine for 8 years, lastly acting as their Editorial Director.

Gareth co-edited The Happy Mutant Handbook (with Boing Boing) and is the author of Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, Jamming the Media, The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots, and Mosaic Quick Tour: Accessing and Navigating the World Wide Web (the first book written about the Web). His most recent book, a collection of his best work, with many new essays, is called Borg Like Me & Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems. The book was crowd-funded and self-published.