I like all the permutations of "an"... could simply be "a net" in the
minimalist viewpoint. Or "a node".
I think the USA tends to glorify machines and the Europeans are more
interested in what machines can do... the nerds here may not have
discovered culture yet :-), or they would rather hide behind their
technical expertise than be forced to think about social uses/abuses of
computers and networks. Some believe that "science" is and should be
independent of "culture", which I find naive and self-serving. Everything
that humans do is embedded in culture and to pretend otherwise is hubris
(do you know this word from Greek drama? I'm sure they teach it in
Finland).
I will recheck the web page later...
Laura