But already from the beginning this aspect of obscurity, of darkness beyond the path of links, has created a splintered online culture, when one compares it to how offline culture has developed. I agree that I do not give memory, or storage, or databases, or archives, the attention they need. You are right to correct me there. The flow and the real time presence is more attractive to me to explore, a bad habit. I don't think it's a bad habit.
Speed is seductive.
Even if you never visit a certain room in a building, it's still there in the floor plans, but in a very real sense, the network is constructed through one's navigation. One is continually building the floorplan, so to speak. Whether online culture is more or less splintered than offline culture seems debatable. As for the dominance of commercial interests, etoy is only the most recent example. In a way, it is a two-edged activity.