Despite its pedophiles, pornography, pipe bombs, and prostitution, the Internet is still a valuable learning tool that should be introduced to everyone. However, there are many people in America who, unfortunately, do not care about the Internet and computer technology. Those people who assume that Java is just a hot beverage and cookies are only edible snacks are not necessarily the problem--the problem is those people who do not care.

Many believe that today's computer technology does not effect them, but they must simply look at how computers have taken over their daily lives. Their alarm clock is a computer, and stop and go lights are running on a city-wide computer network. A trip to the store means that each scanned item is automatically processed by the check out register, and other automated computers immediately send out an order if the store is low on that item. The average American citizen's name runs through 37 computers a day, yet many refuse to understand the technology that runs their lives.

A major complaint about the Internet in classrooms is the fact that not everyone will use it for their homework, but these skeptics must understand that those who misuse the Internet are a delinquent few. It could be likened to a situation wherein a couple of athletes violate the Code of Conduct, and the taxpayers and general public then disapprove of 'wasting' money on Physical Education.

Many people, including us, can learn from the Internet. We have been designing the Chemistry Research Center, an educational web site . Through our project we have learned about mathematics, public relations, logic, team work, multiple languages, and we have taught ourselves what it would take college courses to teach us. We, however, did not run into the pedophiles, pornography, pip bombs, and prostitution that has given the Internet and computer technology the difficulties it encounters today.