Surfing: Up Close and Way Too Personal

Published May 2, 2004 12:00AM


Dispatches, March 1997 Surfing: Up Close and Way Too Personal By Sarah Horowitz All hail the World Wide Web. Not only does it give us instantaneous access to results from any sporting event we care to follow; it now also allows us to become better acquainted–friends, even–with many of the world’s most accomplished athletes. Witness the exploding numbers of hero home pages, in which the immortals share the intimate details of their lives with the workaday masses.

Dispatches, March 1997 Surfing: Up Close and Way Too Personal
By Sarah Horowitz All hail the World Wide Web. Not only does it give us instantaneous access to results from any sporting event we care to follow; it now also allows us to become better acquainted–friends, even–with many of the world’s most accomplished athletes. Witness the exploding numbers of hero home pages, in which the immortals
share the intimate details of their lives with the workaday masses.

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