Dimensions ...

The world around us has four dimensions that we can see and understand. Up-Down, Left-Right, Forward-Back, and Past-Future. Physicists tell us there are more but to the average person they are not clearly visible.

In this the information Age, we have access to a whole set of dimensions known as 'cyber spaces' or 'virtual spaces'. The only people who truely understand what goes on there are often termed computer geeks. If you wish to delve deeper into this with a visual approach there is a nice Atlas of Cyberspace Maps though it is by no means more than a small drop in the ocean.

Constants

As with the real world (RL) time runs forward. One second follows the next, even if they don't match seconds in the real world any other way.

Also 'things' in cyberspace always have a location. Sometimes simple and sometimes so hideously complex it takes a computer just to find it. The location is there for anyone who can find it.

Since everything has a location it should be clear that there is a way to get to anything in cyberspace. Later chapters talk about persons tracking other persons. This is done by using knowledge of the locations of certain things, including the information which describes messages in cyberspace and where they come from.

... and The Spaces

Cyberspace has been constructed over a period of time, with differing ideas and levels of knowledge going into construction of different parts of it. The side effect of this is that there are a number of sections to it each with a different protocol (or map) showing how information is laid out there.

The major sections of this book are laid out as sections matching these protocols and in time sequence as to when the spam wars arrived in each.