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Internet surfing
worldwide has grown to over 1 billion
users--the surfing industry in
California has grown to over 1 billion
dollars in assets.
When you discuss "surfing" today,
there are a set of contextual
understandings about which type of
surfing you are referring to. The real
world surfing in the world's oceans has
been around for probably 100 years.
But the larger sport that by world
count recently numbered 1,319, 872,109
Internet surfers (over 1 billion),
according to internetworldstats.com, is
so large and vast that real world
surfers are now staking claim to their
heritage and sport of surfing in a
manner never seen.
Surfing has taken on several meanings
in popular culture. Channel surfing,
introduced after huge sums of television
channels and indispensible remote
controls became the norm, indicated that
you'd flow with the waves of what
appeared on the set randomly taking it
in, much like the ocean waves surfers
encounter.
When the World Wide Web
similarly offered information to those
browsing on a computer, the sedentary
lifestyle of sitting in front of a
computer monitor took on similar
connotations as 'surfing the net' or
'surfing the web' was adopted. In
reality, surfers are some of the most
avid computer users.
They embrace both the sport of ocean
surfing and the computer activity of
surfing the net with equal ease. Even
the arm chair enthusiast can surf at
places such as Mavericks big wave
contest at Half Moon Bay, thanks to
Internet broadcasts take you right to
the event.
Surf City California focuses
primarily on the Internet and the sport
of surfing in California, which is by no
means the only great surfing spot
worldwide. Because it has the largest
population in the USA, and most
residents live near the 1000 miles of
coast where the weather is supreme,
(majority of population lives within 50
miles of coastlines), ocean surfing has
seen a swell of interest and has grown
from a cottage industry into big
business.
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