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was ‘last year’, and ‘nobody uses it now’. These are the influences
which require guidebooks, such asWired Style,tohavefrequent
new editions, if they are to reflect the real cyberworld. At the same
time, some features seem not to be changing, or are changing only
slowly. It is a comple xand mi xed-message scenario, which can
really only be understood by a detailed consideration of the in-
dividual Internet situations described in chapter 1, and to these I
now turn.