ABSTRACT
Many times throughout this book we have pointed out that cyberspace should not and cannot be reduced to the Web. For many users, however, the World Wide Web, invented at the beginning of the 1990s and a technology that flourished throughout that decade, remains central to our notions of cyberspace. While most one-toone communication continues to take place through email or, increasingly, instant messaging, websites and web pages are the first point of contact for general information or activities such as ecommerce.
