1. Jodi B. Cohen, Time, Space, Form and the Internet. Editor and Publisher 129(19), 1996: 28–29.
2. According to Walker and Sheppard, “telepresence is the enabling of human interaction at a distance, creating a sense of being present at a remote location,” p. 1. G.R. Walker and P.J. Sheppard (eds), Telepresence: The Future of Telephony. In Telepresence. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 1–13. See also, J. Baal-Schem and D. Shinar, The Telepresence Era: Global Village or “Media Slums”? IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Spring 1998: 28–35.
3. Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, The Network Nation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993, p. 37.
4. This is the way it has been used by Joe Childley to describe time spent by Canadian students interacting over the net with friends and family and thereby reducing their phone bills while keeping in contact with people in other cities and other countries. Joe Chidley, Cyber Time: Living by the Credo “Boot up, log on and connect,” University Students are mounting a technorevolution. Maclean’s 109(48), 25 November 1996: 68–69.
5. Likewise Sean Cubitt sees cybertime as “another dimension of web communication.” Sean Cubitt, Multimedia. In Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web edited by Thomas Swiss. New York: New York University Press, 2000, p. 185. “Internet time,” measured by an “Internet clock,” is supposed to provide to all on-line users the same time, whether they are in New York, Tokyo, or Paris. This universal virtual time would presumably do away with the time zones that require time translation from one zone to another.