The community

Where did they come from ?

The amateur surfer looking for information via the portal sites soon gets the impression of over-abundance, which often results in partial feeling of disappointment with Internet after several months. Altavista sends 25,000 pages every time he requests information, the navigation interfaces of the sites he knows are constantly changing, he keeps having to change browsers ... At the same time as living and working in the physical world, the average user has to try to keep up with the expansion of the Web, whose volume increases by 10% each month, with the number of subscribers and services doubling every year, and whose rules of etiquette change practically every week ... The surfer thinks that Internet can do great things for him, but feels unable of exploiting the network because he lacks the necessary tools, methods and even more important, points of reference, and consequently he often remains disorientated for several weeks, if not months. Besides, the media reinforces his conviction that Internet allows communication with the entire planet, but seeing that he is not very technically minded, and that he doesn't known HTML, our internaut can't create a Website to share his ideas.

One solution the surfer might try...