My new favorite analogy comes from auto industry. At one point early last century experts predicted there would be more than 500 automakers. When consolidation began to hit in nineteen teens and 1920s, with automakers failing and getting gobbled up right and left, many feared auto revolution would come to an abrupt end. So much for expert opinions.

So let's look at some recent research to see what is actually occuring on Internet.

E-consumers become "power shoppers"

Online "power shoppers" spent an average of $1,200 online during 12 months prior to a spring survey by iCustomer Observer. This compares to all other e-shoppers who spent an average of $480 online during same year. These power shoppers constitute top 33 percent of Internet consumers. The average age of this high-dollar consumer is 38, with an average annual income of $67,000. Regular e-shoppers are an average age of 55 with yearly salaries of $34,000.

Net usage dropped slightly when school let out

Internet traffic dropped by 1 percent worldwide between May and June 2001 according to a usage report from comScore and Diameter, DoubleClick's research group. The study reported there were 128.4 million unique Internet visitors in U.S. and 296.5 million worldwide in June 2001. The study attributed slight decline in U.S. traffic to summer vacation. The report did note that travel sectors experienced a lift of 2.2 percent between May and June, with 84.5 million visitors worldwide checking travel websites.

High-speed connectivity grows

So this article will be more or less a mini-dictionary to help explain some of these foreign words. So here we go and I hope this helps explain these terms to make them more understandable.

# Upload-- This is when you copy a file from your computer and send it "up" to your host or server.

# Download-- This is opposite of upload. When you bring "down" a file or program from another computer.

# ISP-- This stands for Internet Service Provider. A company that will give you access to internet (for a monthly fee, of course).

# Browser-- Program used to access pages and information on World Wide Web. Examples of browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

#Cookies-- This is information about you such as username, password, address, and so on that has been stored in your hard drive from typing this information into a form. When you again visit this site or form and click, stored cookies will pop up and you will not have to re-type all your information.

#Domain Name- The "address" or URL of a website. Example: http://www.websuccesscentral.com websuccesscentral is domain name.

#HTML-- HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is more or less language computer understands. When you build a webpage, you must use HTML coding so computer understands way you want page to look.