From crispen@INTERNIC.NET Mon Sep 22 23:02:59 1997 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:13:51 -0400 From: crispen@INTERNIC.NET Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS -- 18 SEPTEMBER 1997 -- 100HOT / LEE AND WOLFE This post contains inline ASCII graphics which look best in a monospace font like Courier. Text-to-speech readers should turn off punctuation now. _________ ____________ ________ __________ _____________ ___ _ / | / | | / | \ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|___________/ | \ / /______|----\ | Visit the TOURBUS website to see the Archives, |//////| | | FAQ, and Subscription Information! |//////| | | http://www.TOURBUS.com |//////| | \________________________________________________________|______|____| / \ / \ / \ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): 100HOT / LEE AND WOLFE TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): http://www.100hot.com/ http://www.100hot.com/home.chtml http://v91.simplenet.com/leewolfe/comedy/audio/starred1.ram http://v91.simplenet.com/leewolfe/comedy/audclips.htm http://law.fm.net/ Howdy, y'all! :) In my last TOURBUS post, I promised to tell you the "secret" of that online card trick at . Well, after talking with Jason Berrang, the creator of the trick, he and I decided that it really wouldn't be a good idea if I did that. Instead, in the words of Jason, we're just going to "keep the magic alive." Now if I can only get Jason to teach me how to make ramen noodles fly ... +------------- FLYING NOODLE PASTA OF THE MONTH CLUB ---------------+ Only $19.95 plus shipping - 2 Gourmet PASTAS, 2 SAUCES and recipes. A great gift or a small indulgence for yourself. +----------------- -------------------+ THE 100 MOST POPULAR SITES ON THE WEB ------------------------------------- If you have been on our little bus of Internet happiness for a while, you will probably recognize the truth in the statement "the most popular Web sites aren't necessarily the BEST Web sites." After all, how many people know about Dogpile? That doesn't mean, however, that I totally avoid the most popular sites on the Web. In fact, I visit Yahoo, AltaVista, and cnet several times a day. Besides, it is kind of cool to discover what the most popular Web sites really are. That's where today's first TOURBUS stop comes in. There are *MANY* different companies offering *MANY* different measurements of Web site popularity, but one of my favorites is "100hot." 100hot can be found on the Web at http://www.100hot.com/ 100hot shows you a list of the 100 most popular Web sites, updated every week. To see this "master" list, just click on the 100hot logo on 100hot's main homepage, or point your Web browser to http://www.100hot.com/home.chtml You can also view the 100 most popular Web sites by category, including such categories as: World Play! Tech News/Info ----- ----- ---- --------- Japan Games Webware Biz U.K. Sports Servers Finance Germany Travel ISP's Newspapers Interested in seeing the 100 most popular newspaper sites on the Web? 100hot can help! You can find all of 100hot's categories on their main homepage at . All totaled, 100hot lets you see the 100 most popular Web sites in 35 different categories! Wait. It gets better. 100hot, in conjunction with the folks at AltaVista, also offers a really cool search engine that -- get ready for this -- limits your searches to the 500,000 most popular Web pages from the 50,000 most popular Web sites! This means that when you do a search using 100hot's database, you will only get back the most popular Web pages that match your keywords. Cool, huh? You can find 100hot's search engine on the Web at (although, to be completely honest, I have no idea why 100hot doesn't place this search engine on their main homepage as well). So, if you are looking for the most popular Web sites on the Net -- either overall or by category -- pop on over to 100hot. While their search engine is "hidden," the rest of 100hot's site is an incredible resource. LEE AND WOLFE ------------- Our next stop is here at the University of Alabama. As you probably know by now, the University of Alabama is famous for: 1. The Crimson Tide. Alabama's football teams have won 12 national championships, our women's gymnastics teams have won 3 national championships (all in the last 10 years!), and our men's baseball team finished 2nd in the past College World Series! 2. Me (the University of Alabama's original "Year 2000 Problem"). :) What a lot of people don't know is