Although the author of this journey in cyberspace hardly ever goes anywhere - he just sits in front of his computer - his story is full of travel and incident. Readers meet Bill Gates and other major people in the industry via e-mail, join a virtual community to find out what daily life is like, adapt to the World Wide Web, and build a Web site. The voice of the book is at times comic, at others rueful, wanting to believe in the good things about the Net but sceptical of the hype, trying to account for the engrossing nature of this new frontier.