THE INTERNET

There is no "Internet Inc." There are no official censors, no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders.

The Internet belongs to everyone and no one.

Both of these quotes are taken from A Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling. (Found here) The appeal of the internet is so strong becasue of the lack of rules, lack of guidelines, lack of ownership and the immense freedom that comes with it. You can use it as little or as much as you would like (some people only use email, some use a large amount of email, websites, blogs, file sharing, etc). The internet isn't a place, so it's not as if someone else has an advantage over you, everyone is pretty much equal in internet-land. You make the most out of it. Of course some people have faster internet than others, but more importantly, the majority of the people have the potential to have exactly what others have when it comes to the internet. It has changed how humans think (dependancy on spell check), tools to educated oneself (dictionarys, news, video, movies, etc) as well as taking away the effort that people used to put in to learn (click-click-type-click replaced driving to the library).

-Emelie