being somewhat of an interpretivist( at times), i was sitting here last night considering the net.legends faq http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/legends.html and what it meant for the wider community of usenet, and then i thought about the tropes and narratives that so many of us use to illustrate our points, so I thought I'd open up the discussion a bit. What do you use to illustrate your conceptualizations of the Net, some of us use classic examples like muds and moos, I tend to use Irc and web stories gained from my experiences, but have used the more acceptedly historical examples from time to time, but what do you use? what stories make sense of the internet for you? if any? do you have any really good stories, I participate in the community memory list about the history of the internet at least as lurker, to find some of these stories, but surely there is a broader set or are we already tending toward a set of canonical stories? opinions? insights? share your stories:) jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com