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This study explored how Central European countries draw virtual borderlands on the World Wide Web through self-presentation sites. The underlying questions driving this research were whether Central European countries take advantage of the Internet to compensate for the imbalance of information flow in international media, and how they do so. National presentation Web sites of the seven Central European countries were examined in order to understand what self-presentation strategies they use to introduce their countries to the world. One of the main findings of the study was that while contouring their own virtual borderlands, Central European countries attempted to erase the shadow of another invisible borderland, the Iron Curtain. RUNNING HEAD: Central Europe on the WWW [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]