...The Web and the Writing

The Internet user and the reader of a book are both the same and yet different persons.  Let us look at this in very general and obvious terms.  In the traditional book-bound printed medium, the reader is either able or unable to carry all his books around, while the Internet user is more likely to carry his single Internet-linked computer around.  Since the popularization of laptop computers, he is being limited now only by the access to phone lines for Internet access.  It is no longer inconceivable that we shall be able to access the Internet unrestricted by phone jacks embedded in walls.  The Internet user/reader now requires an additional set of skill, that of handling web browsers and other Internet related client programs, such as email, FTP and Gopher, just to name a few, in addition to the ability to read and comprehend the language of which the text is set in. 

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