A Day in the Life of Cyberspace was designed as an online festival: a virtual event that people from all over the world could attend and participate in. The goal was to encourage people to think about the development of cyberspace and its impact on their own lives, and to send in writings and pictures about their experience with this new world. With these contributions we would create a "Portrait of Cyberspace"—a global snapshot of the on-line world, circa autumn of 1995.