The characteristics of E-Culture

Talking about an “e-culture” is not a mistake, because the Internet, since its begining at the end of the sixties, has always been developed with a part of ideology on its side. Of course, we could say the same thing for every invention: a creator always wants to reach a goal, he always wants his invention to make to world or the life better, or at least easier. But the case of Internet is clearly special, because the web has been created by two differents families of developers who both had strong and varius idiologies and utipias: university teachers and “hackers”.

Developping the Internet system, american university teachers have, since the begining, tried to create in the same time an utopy ok studies and work. Everything had to be done together, there should be in that process individual working. Consequantly, every teacher always gave his results to his collegues, and that’s how the “sharing” ideology of Internet was born. An ideology very powerful today, with the share of information on the web.

The second family, “hackers”, has quicly adopted the technology of Internet, and has brought its wishes and utopias in it. These persons were often linked to the “contre-culture” of the seventies, and made the Internet a system which ad to help the community. They also perceived the web as a free way of communication, a vision never such present than today.