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After class the other day, I was thinking about how the Internet is the first truly international creation. More than the International Space Station, more than the United Nations. The Internet is the first space that is created not by diplomats and politicians, but by everyone. Anyone, at anytime, can edit, comment, create, and destroy the Internet. It isn’t monitored by the government or by parents. And something so chaotic leads one to wonder what it is comprised of. The answer, of course, is that is is made up of anyone and everyone. Not just WASPS, as we Baylor students tend to think when someone says “anyone”, but a community that crosses borders and cultures. It breeds a new culture, an Internet culture. And not just gaming and blogging communities, but culture of communication with anyone, anywhere, at anytime. So many “any” prefixes just goes to show how open the Internet is. And is raises the question now of what culture really is. Is it a fixed community with a fixed set of values? Is is a common border or ethnicity? Anthropologically speaking, yes, it is. But the Internet proposes the idea that everyone is part of a common culture. And it makes one wonder if the idea of a culture means anything anymore.