The Internet is like...

...taking an electronic field trip
...television on steroids
...that proverbial needle in the haystack
...the national electricity grid
...the nervous system of our planet
...the new frontier for exploration by common people
...the ocean
...the poor lonely orphan in the media mix
...the reinvention of paper
...the wild west in many respects
...Thomas Paine's common sense
...trying to comprehend rubik's cube
...a telephone network for computers
...an information flea market
...an old gold mine
...any other advertising medium in that you can't control who sees your ad
...being in a dark room with a bunch of strangers
...Dodge City when the James Gang is in town
...literature's pimp
...many aspects of society and contains a wide range of experiences
...nothing there has ever been before
...other potentially compulsive activities
...real life in a lot of ways
...taking a drink from a fire hydrant
...a big swimming pool on a hot summer day
...a child growing daily
...a big shopping mall
...a church
...a circulatory system or like a nervous system
...a giant jellyfish
...a library with no catalog where all the books get up and move themselves every night
...a magnifying glass
...a mask that people wear
...a meadow after a major fire
...a million tractor beams hitting me at once
...a newspaper without a publisher or editor
...a sword that cuts both ways

-edited highlights of search results for the phrase "The internet is like" at Google.com, December 31st 2002

Credits and Dedications

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