I used to read Salon every single day, it was great. I'm reminded of this story about living in Japan from 1998 (that now seems pretty politically incorrect):

https://www.salon.com/1998/10/30/feature1_6/

Very, very different from what you'd expect from Salon in the later years.

I archived it, because the OP didn't really make it clear if salon.com is going offline or not: https://archive.is/PesDo

Written by the author of speed tribes, who had tremendous influence on william gibson!