I’m D____ F_______, from ________ Canada, … and I love using the internet, and often look for interesting domains.

Wow, I couldn’t believe it as I had a brainwave to suddenly check out your domain name, just to see if someone bought such a unique domain name such as yours of …

www.DontUseTheInternet.com

And guess what, I see that just yesturday, you bought it, too … wow, what coincidence.

I doubt if I would have ever bought the name, myself, but who knows, and if I would have, I would have been so dissappointed that I missed buying it by one day.

Anyway, I suppose I am curious just as to why you would actually buy a domain such as this?

Is it just for unique novel purposes (such as to what I would have used it for), or is it that you actually do not believe in using the net, if I may ask?

Ok, well pleased to have made your aqquaintance, and if you don’t reply, well I will just have to return to your site, sometime and check it out to see what you will put up on it (as at present you only have the “parent dir”
on it).

bye for now, D_____

I don’t believe in using the internet. Everytime someone uses it, God kills a puppy.

-Matt

Thanks for the interesting reply to my email …

LOL,, that is so cool .. not only do we probably actually think alot in similar fashion, but it would seem that we also have the same type of humour as well (BTW, in Canada, we spell “homour” with a “U” - LOL), .. plus also, too, when I was curious about your university, (I picked up on this through your plymoth.edu domain that your email is through), I did a search and happened to find out that you’ve done some humanitarian habitat work. That is also so cool, as I’m big into random acts of kindness!!!!! I also see that you stayed at a church, too (during your building of the house), and wonder if you are a christian, as I am.

Anyway, … if you don’t mind a bit of a ramble from myself in the remainder of this email, well I just have a couple of things that I want to bounce off of you as seeing that you do a lot of computer stuff.

You see, as I, myself, am in the market for buying some domain names (actually I have been for a long time, already - and have been monitoring the whole domain name aspects for quite some time - and have found other really cool domain names that I may buy), however due to varying circumstances, I just haven’t yet. When NameZero.com were giving out free domain names a number of years ago, I snapped up a couple, but because I live in Canada, well their promotions that they used to “pay” for these domain names (such as when people signed up, well they “propagandized” them to death - although people were aware of that), were mostly geered towards Amercian people (I hope this sentance made sense). In fact because of me, they probably discountinued their service, because I suppose that they hadn’t taken into account that Canadians would “see” their offer, and therefore not take advantage of it, thus when I signed up, well they “had”
to accept me, but then they refused anyone else from outside the USA after that. Now the offer at the time was only good for a year, so after that I then let the domain names go.

My point being in sharing this, is that for whatever reason I havn’t been able to get a credit card for the last while, becuase I have found myself never really needing, nor using credit, so to speak, well therefore CC companies now refuse me credit. Thus because a lot of online commerce is doing through CC, well I can’t do any business online. Now with Paypal, though, I can at least do business, but havn’t as of yet because of other varying circumstances that have gotten in the way. Now that I have some things in better order, again, as soon as everything is activated through paypal, I am hoping to do some buying, soon.

Now as I said in my first email, I have used the internet a lot, and in fact I even operate the kindness search engine online, although I haven’t done too much with it recently, but I hope to update it a lot of it in the next short while.

I also am planning, too, to start up a whole new internet as well.

With these types of notions that I wish to do online, well because they are of global, “mass” porportions, I have had to really think through all of the forseeable problems that one may encounter, and because there are a lot, well naturally it can be overwhelming, and almost to the point of whether it would be worth it to really sink my energies into all this online stuff.

As I’ve thought of all the things that I have done in my life so far, and of all the other things that great people have done, well way back when (before there was the internet), people succeeded just fine without it, and also, then, never had to face so many of the potential problems, either, that can be possed upon a person if someone sabatoges their efforts online - Yikes.
Yet because the internet is such a fantastic, modern day “tool”, it almost seems that one can’t do without it now, especially if they wish to do “mass”
marketing stuff, worldwide.

Hmmm … so while I am on the brink of hopfully doing all this, well I then got the notion that perhaps God has been sparing me from all of this, so far, by having been making it so difficult in doing any “business” online so far (remember I said I was a christian, earlier - and God can sometimes spare people of heartache because He knows the future).

Also because I do know of people who are “Internet Paraniod”, if I can put it that way, and because of my own temporary apprehensions, it hit me that just perhaps there may be people out there actually “using” the internet in an ironic way, by putting up information to discourage people, and I suppose that is where I got this silly idea for checking out to see if someone had the domain name of yours - LOL

Ok, I suppose I could ramble on more, here, but I think that you can read between the lines as to what I am all refeering to, and so if you have any comments and wish to reply, please do so, otherwise I will understand if you don’t, too, because we could probably tie up a lot of our time in discussing things, especially if we really do have many more things in common.

Finally, do you “know” many “mennonites” from around your area, if I may ask … I am from mennonite background, although very much different from those mennonites, there, … in fact I almost consider myself a “non” mennonite, now, because of how some are … and even though they are a religious group, yet even though I am a christian, I don’t believe in as to how their religion is.

Ok, I hope that you haven’t minded this long email …

… bye for now, D___ in Canada.

-Matt

Hello, again, Matt … thanks for the fact that you found my email entertaining, despite it’s length. Obviously we all hope to be able to write in such a fashion so as to have any information that we pass on to be compelling enough to get a response.



The mere fact that I coincidentally, once again, happened upon your domain name the day after you bought it, was so intriguing to me, and in such a very compelling way, too, that I couldn’t help but to send you off that initial email. And now we have entered upon this unique discussion in the process, and I hope that it remains as compelling and engaging a process.
You know, if there truly are people who “Don’t Use The Internet”, well I hope they can see that despite it’s pitfall, it truly can be a blessing.



Communication is really key with me, as I used to be a radio DJ, and therefore, short, and to the point dialog is most effective, however at times I can’t help but write long letters, simply because the true jest of what I am saying is worthy of it, such as to my long emails regarding all of this topic.



And so … you ask of my new internet idea ??? Yes, this certainly is an intriguing idea of mine, if I say so myself and so I will attempt to answer your question with a few different answers, because I see this reply as almost two or threefold.



First off, as you wish further elaboration, I suppose that you are referring as to “how” all this can and/or could come about - from a technical point of view? Well despite the fact that I do a lot of stuff online, yet in certain aspects, I am still in the dark as to some of the technical aspects in how the net actually functions … but I do know this, that it is a whole bunch of computers all “linked” together, with people using their own computers, seeking information, of which is stored in these “linked” computers. And so, because the “root” of the system will, and can only always be the same, for no matter which internet “concept or idea” comes along, it will all function the same, right. And so, such is the same with my idea, … it will “piggy back” the root system as the “mainstream” internet does. In fact, it will actually piggy back the main internet (or domain system), through “sub” domains. Now obviously anyone who has done a certain amount of internet stuff will know that this system has already been used for a long time already, but it’s in my “philosophical” and “attitude” approach that hopefully will set my “sub” domain “principle” apart from the rest.



Thus, secondly, to further answer your question … because I am hoping to have the concept “different” than the “whole mainstream internet concept”, well in a sense, then, it can almost be referred to as a whole NEW internet.
Now if the truth be known, the original internet was simply passing information between (government?) organizations and universities (through their computers), and all for the purpose well meaning ends. BUT!!!!! ….
such is the long forgotten original internet, where now it is used by “everyone”, and of where so much of the content has been replaced or overrun with spam, viruses, sabotage, spying on innocent people, “steeling” people’s identities, finances and creative ideas, etc., and a whole bunch of other headaches, to put it mildly!!!



The internet has obviously become a victim of it’s own success, just like every other successful thing that has come through this world. Thus sometimes I truly do not blame people for being Internet paranoid, as I thus referred in an earlier email.



SKEPTICAL????? Is it possible to reinvent the internet, such as back to it’s original intentions and worthy good? According to my dreams, and through the process of my unique aspect to the “sub”domain principle, I honestly do feel that it is possible. And so this new internet will only consist of web sites that do NO selling online, have very limited advertising (and if there is any, it will only be of “in house” ads, and so forth), no pop ups, plus also ONLY people who truly do have content for a website that is truly of sound information, and not just “vain” selling stuff, will be allowed to put stuff on it, and with the appropriate domain name as well. And so if a person has a “business” of cars, they will not be able to buy the domain name of “racing.com”, but just only domains such as “car.com” or “cars.com” or “CarDealers.com” or “FredsFordCars.com” and so forth. As I said, there will be no selling, but a business would be at least allowed to display it’s products - with a note of their “mainstream”
domain where people can subsequently go to if they wish to purchase an item.
Also, if “business” wanted to offer an “unconditional” free give-a-way of some sort, this can be the place to do so as well. Now I don’t want to go into too much depth, here and now, as to why a business would want to have a website online on this new internet, but if enough people were “just surfing” this new internet (to get away from all the “garbage” that is inundating us on the mainstream internet), well then it would be to a business’s advantage to also have a website on this new internet.



Now perhaps all of this information is puzzling you as to how I can “actually” make such an internet “happen”, both from a technical (such as from the domain aspect of “.com”, “.net”, and “.org”), point of view, as well as from a way of “monitoring” the content and so forth. Obviously those are good questions, and while I am not trying to write to you such mind boggling information (that is absolutely unrealistic), to thus cause you to become even more curious, but if and when I can get this set up in a good and proper way, then you will obviously realize just how “simple” and easy it can happen. But I will say this, that the, once again, “philosophical” approach is what will ultimately maintain this for sustainable success. (But will this eventually become a victim of it’s own success as well, - if it succeeds??? Great question!)



Thus having said all of this, it is my hope to have this done in a creative way, if not unique, as people often do tell me that I have a very creative mind (and to be honest, I have been able to pull off some unique things at times).



Ok, I believe that I have given you enough information to chew on for awhile, and of course, as always, you are invited to keep corresponding along these lines with me because of how we have a lot of similar interests, both with this very unique online Internet stuff, as well as many other personal aspects, too, such as to our faith in God (now there’s something that I could really talk lots about - and believe me, if you wanted to start a blog of God, - but not religion, - well you could see just how long of emails that I can really write … so far these emails have been “short” by comparison - in fact I have written a very lengthy “book” of how God has worked in my life)!



Bye for now, D____