METAPHORE

With the year 2007 coming, this not so new concept of the Internet has become the center of attention in everyone’s life. E-mail is the #1 way of communication next to cellphones, and people use the internet for researching, passing time, and communicating with family abroad. Like Vicki said, the Internet is a system. A tool that makes everyone’s life easier in the long scheme of life. It technically is a system, since the internet is run by companies servers sending out the desired connection so that people can surf the web. My own metaphor for the Internet is simply a virtual mall, you can literally buy what you want in this store, use the stores services since they offer everything, and can go to the virtual library located in it. It’s cyberspace, it’s intangible and not physically visible, but it’s right in front of us when we log in immediately to an internet browser. This mall has grown in the past decade from a dainty, underground mall to a fancy one, that has brand new stores popping up with unlimited space to add more for goods and services.