“Five years ago, The New York Times on the Web announced its arrival. The site has changed quite a bit since January of 1996, but its aspirations are largely the same: to be the best news and information site on the Internet.”

“In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner studied the data from the recently completed 1890 U.S. Census and arrived at a surprising conclusion. The American frontier — what Turner called ‘the meeting point between savagery and civilization’ — seemed to have disappeared. There was no longer a clear line in the West that divided settled and unsettled territory. So in an important essay called ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History,’ Turner pronounced the frontier dead. Is it time to do the same for the Web’s leading edge?”