As part of the ordinariness of being a "Mass Medium 
Internet" the exclusiveness of research net days is 
no longer given. "What was once a small, self-regulating 
society of academics and computer wizards has been 
engulfed by mainstream culture", Peter Lewis reports 
about the annual Cambridge Computers, Freedom and 
Privacy Conference 1996 in the New York Times. Internet 
pioneers frequently make use of the concept of "the 
good old days", when one was among equals. Together 
with the feeling that it "used to be better", manifest 
in the Western cultural area, comes the personal 
experience that as well as the "...usual assortment 
of computer hackers, academics and self-described 
crypto-anarchists" (= we) now also cultural strangers, 
"others" appear at regular events, for example the 
conference Lewis described: "federal judges, 
lawmakers, White House policy experts and law 
inforcement agents".