You couldn’t even follow the year’s other big stories without tripping over the Net: Newt was online, as were the gun nuts charged with the Oklahoma City bombing, the loudest anti-Bosnia cranks and every opinion on the O.J. verdict. Never mind that the Net is still saddled with problems of slowness, security, under regulation and potential overload, or that nine of 10 Americans have yet to log on. In 1996, maybe they will.
