The Internet is the manifestation of the basic human desire for communication and interaction. The (seeming) irony is that after many years of humans complaining that technology is isolating us from one another, technology is now being used to re-connect and abolish boundaries. (Actually, at this point, I'm beginning to view the Internet as another _country_. That is an essay unto itself...) "all was created from /dev/null and shall return to /dev/null"