** Teaser!! ** This is kind of a private post!
When I was a teen and the Internet was only know to a very special circle, the world got interconnected by dial-up modem connections via POT (plain old telephone) -lines and bulletin board systems (Fido, ...) the buzzword was "the global village".
The spirit of that time with "Netiquette", which was a guideline to all newcomers to the global net, was openness. So like google books today, the IMHO most/only philanthropically google service, the credo was global knowledge.
It is impressive to note the equal distribution of drop ins to my blog (according to the statistics) from all over the world. Clearly significant US-Americans and Europeans but also people (students, fellow PH.D students?) from the whole world: China, India, Pakistan, Marocco, Iran, Thailand, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Romania, Finland, ..., ....
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