One planet would be like the 'core web' and that's where most people go. But some people have broken off from it and have gone to places like the Indie web or the Small web or however you call it. And that's like (ALMOST) everything else.. Like the outer regions of the solar system.
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Hmmmm have you ever seen "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets"?, today I feel its like that! A big spaceship floating around in the chaotic and dangerous galactic currents of the electric space zone! When you build websites, its like sticking new habitat modules onto it - some of the modules are very small; others are like huge shopping malls and everyone in them is very lazy like the WALL-E people. Sometimes bits of it float off into space and are lost forever - other times bits get too old and are abandoned - some bits have their own micro governments, others are filled with unusual alien cultures, and others still are filled with flesh eating mutants! - Ultimately everyone needs to cooperate though in order to keep it alive for future generations! 
(resisting the desire to talk about luc besson and derail the thread)
i see what you mean! if you concieve of each site as its own space, and each space as real and interconnected, then the internet becomes a messy city constantly building and re-building over itself.
i also like the idea that co-operation is ultimately the thing holding it all together.
it may not come naturally to me, but this does feel like a helpful image of the paradoxical interconnectedness and separateness of different web-spaces.
i don't really imagine the internet the way others seem to. i don't think about The Internet as an entity in its own right.
to me, the internet is a tool. it shares the same internal concept as the post, or telecom, or radio, or shining a laser pointer in your friend's bedroom window at night. on its own, it doesn't exist as anything beyond the basic physical fact of itself. but it is a method through which things do exist, and express their existence to others.
when i try to think about "the internet" conceptually i can't really think about anything. if i try to invent an image, i think about wires under a layer of silt on the seafloor.
i do think about websites and web-spaces (which to me aren't always the same thing), but in a more concrete sense.
i've had a few dreams about web-spaces that i visit often. i am never, in the dream, using a computer or any other device to view the space. i am simply there, navigating it via a sort of intuitive telekenesis, with nothing between me or it. this is close to how i think about web-spaces when awake, too.
i think this is a reflection of the fact that familiar tools are grafted into the proprioception of their user, and from that perspective their use is the same as doing something with one's own body; and thus, the external trappings of the tool are discarded and they are concieved of in a more direct sense as a part of the dreamer.
i don't think i can express this coherently.
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