Electronically amplified, Mitch and I were able to personally conduct much of EFF's business in the first few months of operations. But gradually we had to confront the fact that while the Net is very broad, it is also quite shallow. 1992 Zen and the Art of the Internet , Brendan P. Kehoe, version 1.0, January, 1992. As The Net grew, the news software was expanded and modified. . . . I can see a future in which any person can have a Node on the Net .
Any person can be a publisher.
Bringing the Net to everyone is too important a matter to be left to the private market, the argument continues, so the government therefore must either take control of the process, or, in the extreme view, build the Net itself. The History of the Net , Henry Edward Hardy, Master's Thesis, University of Michigan, September 28, 1993. The Net is a unique creation of human intelligence. The Net is the first intelligent artificial organism. The Net represents the growth of a new society within the old.