Indiana Wetnet: a Virtual Water Resource

The WETnet concept exists at the intersection of three familiar areas of interest as depicted in FIGURE 1. The concept is analogous to replacing the hardware and software domain with, say, transportation and lodging, and the intersection would then be a conference. That is to say that when you get a group of people who share a common interest to meet, discuss, and share their ideas then we generally call this a conference. The WETnet concept is similar except instead of traveling across roads and air routes and meeting in hotels and conference rooms, they are meeting, talking, and sharing their common content of interest in the virtual world of sof tware built upon the in frast ruct ure of telecommunications lines and computers. This virtual world is popularly referred to as cyberspace (Benedikt 1991).