I just bought the Internet World January issue dealing with Best and Worst of 1996.
There are many goods points about the best things on the Web but there was a funny one on the Worst part titled "Year's Most Stupid Action ... Against the Net". :)
Among other things, one of the points about the upcoming year was related to the fact that many domain-name holders will lose the rights to their names.
Spamming was mentioned as well as a point in the Worst part. :) Many newsgroups are falling apart because of that. Not a surprise, hey! :)