First and foremost, the Internet's for learning.

First and foremost, the Internet is for learning.
That's how it started, and today the savvy learner will know what the Internet represents, a mighty tool for the intellect and research.

The Internet started with intellectuals and scientists interested in sharing vast amounts of information quickly over long distances. They wanted to have a place to store information, too.
Naturally, the military had a hand in all of this too.

Today Mr. Money Bags has his hand in the Internet, obviously, and not always for the better. I agree and applaud the neat stuff available because of capital's infusion into the Internet. It's really neat to speed along and find so many things to buy and share.
Of course there's the downside, the ever-growing nuisance of advertising, which we are all inundated with from morning until night and even longer.

Getting to the gist of this subject, I just did a search on various commercial search engines, you know who they are, Yahoo!, Google, and those little guys too. Great as they are, they do not and cannot approach the mighty, glorious efforts found on Wikipedia. Do a search for "airports" on Wikipedia and you'll see what I mean.

The information compiled on Wikipedia receives the criticism that it is not "scholarly" like the large encyclopedias. Also, some people say that Wikipedia does not carry that heavy credibility earned by the large, commercial encyclopedias. I say, "not so." Wikipedia is current, peer-reviewed information and can be corrected in a moment. This is not so of the large, commercial encyclopedias. Do you remember how the large, commercial encyclopedias perpetuated ill-advised theories of race and racism? I do. I remember the less-than-knowledgeable anthropologists were given top ranking in commercial encyclopedias to espouse their nonsense.

Years following the correction of their problems with science and fact, these encyclopedias were still found on library and family shelves to mislead eager learners. This does not happen with Wikipedia. See Critical Race Theory, Beware Of Elites Bearing Racial Theories, The Evolution of Racism, THE GERMAN INVENTION OF RACE An Interdisciplinary Conference,
and my comments:

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This myth, story, began with the German anthropologist Bloomenbach in the late 18th century. ( See The Geometer of Race by Stephen Jay Gould, below). Mixed with various sorts of bigotry and fear of others, racism grew to monumental, institutional proportions. "Blumenbach provided the formula; the Dred Scott Court acknowledged it; Hitler perfected it." Nevertheless, we know through genetics and history that humanity has existed as one race for many thousands of years. We hope to combat the ignorance of racism with the articles and links below.>>

Like I said, the Internet's place is first and foremost for learning, not commercial advertising. I suppose that we're condemned to commercials, but it's important to keep first things first.
Wikipedia exemplifies the best of the Internet and the best in human dreams come true.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleaners