2009 Internet Directory: Web 2.0 Edition

If it wasn’t for the year printed in the title, you could assume that this book was a pre-Y2K relic. What essentially amounts to a phone book for the Internet, the attempt to provide a blueprint for the Web brings back memories of 14.4K modems and floppy disks. Truly shocking, though, is that it’s effective on some level. Sure, you won’t find a listing for Rainbow Brite fan fiction, but the basics, such as travel, food, taxes, sports and mainstream entertainment are all here. The content is expansive—the book surprisingly included most of my favorites list, so this could appeal to someone who doesn’t want to sift through the unreliable sites that overwhelm Google results. Excluded, however, is porn, probably because it would have turned the 500-page book into a 36-volume set. Volume one: Aardvark-Anal.