Physical vs. Web Space — Similarities and Differences

Virtual worlds, and especially the Internet, become increasingly important for advertisement, planning purposes, and simulation. Concepts that proved useful in the real world have been transferred to the Internet. A frequently seen example is the concept of navigation processes. In the real world such processes are based on the properties of space. A transfer to the virtual reality of the Internet is only useful if the properties of real space and virtual space are similar. In this paper we present different concepts of space and discuss their suitability for the Internet.