By: Taban Khajehnassiri
What is the most important aspect of the web? Is it the number of pages on it? Is it this fact that it is so wide and full of informatin. In this article, I am not going to talk about the stuff aspect of the web, these networks or computers, the king is something else within all these human beings working with the cyberspace, I believe ...
"Some say the world will end in Fire ... Some say in Ice ..."(*) But I
strongly believe that this so-called wide world will end in web, the same
as the way we have learned to write it as the "World Wide Web".
Yes, some say the most important aspect of the web is that it is a world wide stuff, a world wide need, a world wide answer to all asked questions.
Some say it is a sea of information, all the needed materials and literatures, all the
most wanted news, views, reviews, upgrades and updates. Some say the web is the bed for future media, communications and then for the education or the re-education, a media for people-to-people exchanges, interactivities throughout the world and for the peoples of the world and that's the most important aspect of the web. And I believe these are only signs of a growing understanding of that - the web.
Some say the world is just for business, e-commerce and money, some say it is just for fun or wasting your time. "But from what I have tasted of desire, I hold with those who
favor" (*) the web as a living thing, a real excuse, a real challenge, a big struggle, as the ONE, united thing, making us keep on trying to
maintain the universal values of all societies, cultures and civilizations, human beings, on this green and blue planet.
Thinking, thinking and thinking, I believe is the most important aspect of the web.
In order to be a net user, you have to be a human being capable of thinking, you have to think and make a decision, to use the Internet, you have to learn, more and more, and you have to think again which way to choose and take. To set up a web site, you have to think and finalize a
plan, a structure and design which could be considered as your business plan or even your entertaining plan. To find viewers, you have to find and follow strategies, you have to communicate and advertise, these are your
own challenges to survive on the web, and on this planet. Anyway, let me now ask you this question: What do you think? What is the most important
aspect of the web? Please "think" for a while and let us know ... That's it ... You are thinking, because you are on the web communicating with
this newsletter!
This article first published as the editorial of WWN September 2, 2000