A pet dog, probably a Labrador retriever, teaches lessons on Internet to his girlfriend, a white female puppy, with black spots and a pendant around her neck. Mounted on a chair, in front of a turned on computer, with a pad on the keyboard and the other one in the air, Azor explains to his girlfriend, in awe with admiration: "You see, on the Internet no one knows whether you are a man or a dog...". The cartoon, appeared in "The New Yorker" magazine, illustrates the main virtue (vice) of the Internet. It is easy to use it, but it is more difficult to find out who is at the other end of the line
A pet dog, probably a Labrador retriever, teaches lessons on Internet to his girlfriend, a white female puppy, with black spots and a pendant around her neck. Mounted on a chair, in front of a turned on computer, with a pad on the keyboard and the other one in the air, Azor explains to his girlfriend, in awe with admiration: "You see, on the Internet no one knows whether you are a man or a dog...". The cartoon, appeared in "The New Yorker" magazine, illustrates the main virtue (vice) of the Internet. It is easy to use it, but it is more difficult to find out who is at the other end of the line.
The information we receive through the Internet is often hard to be checked or believed. Let me give you a little example. At the initiative of some enthusiastic fellows it was created an encyclopaedia called wikipedia, which exists only on the Internet. Wiki is a Hawaiian word, chosen because it sounds funny. It means "fast" in order to suggest the method generating the articles. The encyclopaedia is written and can be modified by every user of the Internet, instantaneously. The articles appear as the users show interest for certain subjects.
The Adrian Paunescu subject, for instance. A user for the first time interested in this issue creates a biography and