Basically my thoughts as well. Mainly I take a cyberpunk-esque view of things where the net is a big ecosystem with lots of weird environmental niches, and so i

Basically my thoughts as well. Mainly I take a cyberpunk-esque view of things where the net is a big ecosystem with lots of weird environmental niches, and so it breeds software, people, and organizations to occupy these niches. Asking what this one request is supposed to mean is kind of beside the point, like asking what a particular log in a forest means.