Modeling in the Internet
By Mario Covalski
Sometimes, I wonder if it’s really necessary to write a monthly editorial, I’m not discussing if this is usual or if matches within a magazine’s circle, even a virtual one. The editorial expresses the ideology of the one who leads the media, thus my editorials should express our ideology as a magazine about modeling, and, if you read our previous editorials, you’ll find out our thoughts with respect to plastic modeling and other activities around it.
Nevertheless, Modeler Site is a virtual magazine developing in a growing and dynamic circle like Internet and in point of fact, we must have a concrete ideology according to the circle we’re developing in.
Around the Internet, there are beliefs, some of them are real myths, that can’t stand the minimum analysis, or just definitions that correspond to a different evolutionary stage. If somebody would have explained to you what was, and how Internet worked 6 years ago, and you intended to understand with those rules the Internet of today…you would realize that you understand nothing and that the rules are wrong.
The modeling sites will have to adapt to the Internet of today, dynamic with a great deal of demanding surfers with more and more expectations, a world where the connections are fast, with leading edge technology, where anyone can download a complete site in just a couple of hours. Nowadays, there are no captive visitors any more, and the word “hit” becomes worthless; a visitor, can visit Modeler Site…and their competitors in a matter of minutes!!!
But, what do modeling sites compete for in the Internet? : definitely to exist. Internet IS NOT FOR FREE, a visitor downloading information from a site involves a cost, the bandwidth is the business of the consortiums owners of the communication technologies. Nowadays, a web site with a bandwidth of about 200-300 Gb, has to face up a serious problem, since the maintenance cost is relatively high compared with the “so- called” for free, of everything offered.
At the end of the twentieth century, a web site was comprised by a few bad pictures together with some words and a forum, nowadays they turned out to be simple galleries and forums, but if you expect to find around the web, a serious project, you’ll agree with me that it needs many hours of work from modelers and technicians, servers and dedicated connections…and even perhaps, it doesn’t reach a level of excellence. Today nobody would think of having a serious web site on line, with a free hosting, it’s something ridiculous, but usual in 1999.
Whenever the man faces up changes, the first reaction is the negation, and thus, we find groups that don’t accept reality and are still grumbling that Internet should be for free saying that, if you don’t want or accept that rule, you should not visit the Internet; with their attitude and e-mails they just show they are totally ignorant about the Internet and the way it works.
Nowadays, when I hear voices either in the forums or by email, spreading around the idea of an Internet for free, even when there are people with a great purchasing power that spend huge amounts of money in kits and aftermarket (that perhaps will never use)…maybe are the same who believe that there’s no need to give African countries free assistance …it makes me sad to see the ignorance, the lack of projects, the human beings limitations, the vested interests…and as it could not be missing, the frustration of those who have very limited horizons.
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