Mutual interaction of people by means of a communication in natural language existed over millennia and played various roles pragmatical, social, cultural, and religious. They may use the advantage of direct dialogue for clarification and even for the generation of new ideas. On the other hand, written messages are detached from the situation in which they were written and may be received in different time, different place and read by recipients entirely unknown to the sender. This requires much more clarity and stability of meaning in written texts. At the same time, writing enables communication across space and time and allows large-scale storing and sharing of knowledge.
Cyberculture combines the advantages of oral and written communication.
Its impact on society may be comparable to the impact caused by the advent of writing several millennia ago. When talking about communication, information, dialogue etc. That may not be, however, always the case. The same may happen in Cyberculture, albeit independently of geographical distribution of participants. A well-known phenomenon in contemporary Internet is the formation of virtual communities .