The OnlineWorld is like an unknown continent that was just discovered. It has its own rules, riscs and chances. The Internet is the medium of choice to access it, but surfing the web is only like looking at this continent on TV. Many corporations drop their ads on this continent (like from an airplane), but don't make money from it and haven't moved there. E-mails are like homing pigeons flying across the continent. Only few people enter the wilderness of the OnlineWorld to live there and explore it. The OnlineWorld is not a world of graphics and not a mirror image of the real world; it's the world of free global communication between people and the world of free and open knowledge. -- HelmutLeitner
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