the net was built originally to serve as information transfer to reduce paperwork amongst universities and to ease communication difficulties. it has evolved much over the last twenty years and there are now billions of sites all around the world resting on servers that either get millions of hits a day or none at all for months.

COMMERCIALISM
the net, when i first started surfing, had everything for free and everything was easy and cool. then big corporations saw one little guy become rich and decided to add their hands to the pot. ever since then, it has become more slow and more pathetic. nothing is truly free anymore and it takes forever to download anything. to do anything online anymore, you need the fastest modem and, even with access to a T1, i find that somewhat slow. i saw this commercial from IBM and they mention the speed-up of the information superhighway and how fast can your software go... the problem is NOT the software. the software is already there. the problem is that the hardware is insuffeciently developed to support such a high-speed software system. and remember, IBM is not a software company. sure, they developed e-this and e-that, but come on! if i hear another e-business "E", i'll go fucking crazy! it's like the electric car. we have the concept. we have the motivation. we have the environmental activists. we have the capability, but the technology is insufficient for reliable construction of the completed thing.

what i am getting at though is THE ADVERTISING. too many ads are out there right now and everyone wants you to click their own ad and come to their site and purchase or acknowledge their products or services. an internet surfer can see in five minutes online more ads than they will see that day in three hours of television. most of these ads are a bunch of shit though, as they promise something - yet when you get to the site, either that promise is expired or they were deceiving you to get you there so they may proclaim a certain quantity of hits to their supervisors.

ANOTHER THING
it fucking annoys me when i go to a site and they have this huge entry page of ads and most of them are designed so they look like they are the entrance to the true site you want to go to. i feel sorry for the net virgins and new surfers who have yet to notice something called THE STATUS BAR. if you look at the fucking status bar while you mouse-over a link, most of the time you may see the url that link points to and then you should compare that with the site address you are on and you can then decide wether it is a link to garbage-shit site or the fucking site you want in the first place.

the only drawback to this is the development of javascript mouseovers, where a webdesigner can set the statusbar to say whatever they want so you won't see that you are going to a sponsor or shit-for-brains hope-you-buy-our-junk website. EXAMPLE: mouseover any link in this website, i use mouseover~statusbar to keep you from seeing the structure of my site and to make it more elegant so you don't need to see the urls more than once in your location bar.