ABSTRACT
It is now commonplace to point out that the Internet is the fastest-growing communication medium that humankind has yet invented. Indeed, some of my taken-for-granteds are that all of this book’s readers will know what the Internet is,1 and that they use it more or less regularly – for e-mail, to participate in online discussion groups, to view web sites, or to transmit other sorts of information electronically.2 I also suspect that even if the readers of this book have not actually used the Internet to present their work to the public, most have considered it. A quick search of Internet web sites (using the ‘search engines’ Yahoo©, Google©, and Altavista®) reveals that at the time of writing (2001) there are between 1,060,001 and 1,870,000 Internet web sites that either deal with or are about archaeology.3
