Thank you for your welcome, musick, and for your poem! I do indeed note the date. The poem is densely packed, "chewy," and I will have to ponder it for a time.

Re your comment on 24-bit color:
Standard for the manufacturer I'd imagine, but not for those that don't consider the *"web itself" an advertising vehicle.

I'm only an amateur web designer, so if 24-bit color is not the standard, please enlighten me! Has it gone on to 32 now, or more? Or did you mean it was less? (I take "standard" to mean, what the majority of desktop-computer users currently have.)

I think I understand your phrase about the Web as an advertising vehicle ... the tone implies you DON'T think of the Web that way, and that you lament its direction. I can only agree.