The kind of person allowed for by the personal computer is a rather limited version of what we and computers might be. The abolition of this particular simulation opens many possibilities for using the data contained inside the computer. However, it is naive to think that it is possible to completely avoid simulation. Any language, for programming or not, is symbolic. It exists to mediate, to communicate.
Websites are only periodically updated, generally via ftp.
The bulk of the contents of the Internet are not accessible in real time. It clearly follows more closely from your work duplicating the data from various internet art sites but shifts, moving data from one context of availability into another, but instead proffers up the data from your own computer. It seems that these projects offer a form of work that is not concerned with representation so much as directly creating new arrangements of patterns of life, of the availability of data, and so on. The websites involved were not targets for attack but instruments to highlight some paradoxes of the Net. In other words, passes from a critical position to a positive one.