Stone is indeed the hardest material that people can observe. It may burst and turn into sand eventually, but that process can never be observed within not just one, but even several life times. If stone burst like that, those rocks at Stonehenge wouldn’t be there thousands of years after they were placed there.
It was no pure coincidence that Jesus named Peter “a stone” or “a rock”.
As the Internet is concerned, it’s such a specific and mystical thing, you know. Alone the three “W’s” are a very odd “coincidence”, given the fact that in Hebrew the abbreviation WWW reads 666.
I’m not superstitious and I don’t give a damn about it. Even if the Internet was called “Interchrist” or “Antichrist” it wouldn’t bother me at all, because I stand above all those religious or mystical interpretations of things. It’s not me to fear the Antichrist – or any other superficial figure for that matter – but it is them to fear me. Not me as a physical person of course, but me as an Intellect or as an Individuum. Or as a HUMAN, to be more precise, because a HUMAN stands above every thing.
The Internet is indeed a kind of “new stone”. It makes it possible for people to connect world wide. In my opinion, it exactly resembles the process that is going on in our brains. I imagine the world as a huge brain, with the Internet being all those bio-chemical processes that happen on its surface (and probably in its interior as well).
The problem with the Internet is not the Internet as such, but the fact that it is being used for inhumane or destructive purposes. The same thing is the case with oh-so-many other things, such as a knife, to name one of the simplest things in that connotation. A knife can be useful i.e. used constructively, but it can also be used destructively.
Our quasi civilization will not perish because of the Internet as such, but because of the fact that it always finds a way to misuse every thing, and turn it into the opposite of what it was initially meant for.
Answering your last question inside your question, I’d say it is by far better to have something carved into stone than on the Internet, because the Internet depends on several things, electricity being the most important basic. When electricity disappears, there will be neither Internet, nor anything else that depends on it.
For those among you, who believe that there was at least one civilization on Earth that got lost in course of time:
They surely had either Internet or something similar to it, but we never found anything. All we were able to learn from was some fragments written in either stone or wood or things made of wood (such as parchments or paper).