Global Internet Usage Booming.
This report from MacCentral:
“By the end of 2002, over 600 million people will access the Internet worldwide, spending more than US$1 trillion dollars, a new study (The Internet Mosaic: One World, Many Nations) from IDC reveals.…”
That’s one in the eye for the anti-Internet naysayers one still comes across, who are keen to tell you that with the dot.com crash this Internet thing is finished because the chance to rake in an endless supply of cash went when the bubble burst.
Or that the Internet is kaput because the click-through rate for those crappy little animated GIF banner ads has been steadily declining since their invention.
Or even that the Internet is rubbish because their company paid a fortune for some all-singing all-dancing website with a really cool Skip Intro, a terrific message from the CEO, and a pricey custom CMS/database backend, but once it was launched they did not come!
There’s bound to be more and different kinds of misperceptions ready to take the place of these ones. That is human nature.
Meanwhile let’s get on with exploring all the different ways we can push what the Internet is so very good at, the thing that is attracting all those new users—storytelling in all its forms and applications.
9:59:50 AM 
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