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The Internet. It seems so fundamental to our lives. Looking back over the last few—f n fact, very few—years, we wonder how we ever lived without its numerous, readily-available resources just as we wonder how we ever lived without desktop computers themselves, digital notebooks, and cellular phones.
Of course, most scientists have been on familiar terms with the Internet for quite some time. The fabled network of networks was, after all, first created by scientists themselves with scientists in mind. Up until a few years ago, the Internet was used almost exclusively by engineers, scientists, academics and students as a vehicle for sharing information and research. In 1985 the Internet boasted only 1,961 host computers and numbered its users in the tens of thousands. But as many scientists know only too well, the once-pristine electronic frontier of the Internet has now been overrun by new settlers. In fact, the Internet has doubled in size every ten months for the past ten years. Today the number of Internet users increases by a more than two million new logins each month.
Along with vast numbers of “lay” Internet users have come vast numbers of purveyors of all sorts of information: the new gold of the electronic frontier toward which so many settlers rush. Scientific information certainly continues to have its place in the newly settled territories of the Internet. And scientific resources continue to grow in number. However, scientific information on the Net no longer constitutes the majority share. Scientific information plays second fiddle to financial information, religious information, erotic information, political information, literary information, and so on.
On the “plus” side, the information resources of the Internet seem to increase at almost as fast a rate as do the number of Internet users. The steadily growing profusion of information options—including information options related to the sciences—is wonderful. It is also utterly confusing.