In a daze in the Cyber Jungle

Cyber space is really a jungle, full of traps for the unwary. One initially thinks of it as a vast landscape where one can write something indelible as on a granite tablet, to last longer than a lifetime. Surfing the Cyberspace steadily as I had done these past few weeks quickly brings that notion to an unceremonious halt when one is confronted with a 401 error message for a missng page or even an unlocatable server. Like shifting sands in the desert, the World Wide Web is as stable as the marketplace that makes it hum. Sure, there are perrenial signposts like Yahoo, MSN, or Google. However, quite a number have fallen by the wayside, or gobbled up by the giants and resurrected as something new just like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.

The World Wide Web has become my current dream and I live in it for most of the day, taking time out only to eat and sleep and maybe do an errand or two. It never ceases to amaze me. One day you think that you have a handle on it, the next day you find it was as real as a daydream when you find it to be so different from how it was dished out to you. I am talking of the dreams being peddle in the Internet. They all share a common theme and that is to bring the marketplace to you, or in Internet parlance: traffic.

What good is a well-designed, well-organized, well- thought out website if nobody knows it is there. I am informed that there are over 56 million websites and the number keeps on going. This is the kind of population explosion which is not so heavy on real estate. A small country like Western Samoa or Tokelau can be a presence in the World Wide Web if it has the infrastructure to connect to the Information Superhighly which Bill Clinton and Al Gore promoted. This bit of information I gleaned from suto-surfing the Web.

This is another new term I have learned from my forays into the Dreamland called the Internet. It is a kind of surfing on auto-pilot where you just watch the websites go whizzing by every thirty seconds or so; and, it anything catches your fancy you can just reach for the mouse and click on "pause" to get a closer view. Then you let it pass you by and wonder if you will find it again. It is sometimes pointless to bookmark as even your bookmarks starts to become a jungle too.

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