You can buy things on the web. You can sell things on the web. You are bombarded by advertising on the web. Chances are when you first go online, every site you visit will be owned by a major corporation trying, no matter how indirectly, to get money from you. Despite all this, the Internet is not about commerce. It is not about making people money. That is a side-effect. The Internet is about communication.

This section is not here to tell you how to surf the web, or to tell you what kinds of sites you should visit. That's really none of my business. I just want to let you know about some of the stuff that's out there that exists for it's own sake. What I'm referring to is generally known as "Independent Content". The personal sites that are more than just homepages about their cat [not that those are bad, it's just... a long-running 'net joke, about how everybody's homepage has a picture of their cat].

There are sites about design, and sites which are design experiments. There are fan sites and activist sites and even some different kinds of personal sites. Commerce is only one part of the web. Remember that you don't have to be limited by what big companies want to show you.