Modern virtual world contains archetypes of the cultural traditions that created this new medial reality. One of these archetypes is Hegel's Absolute Idea. The article demonstrates the fate of this archetype in the Internet space, using the Aliexpress Internet resource for analysis. The author identifies two essential features of the archetype, which got its expression in the Hegelian concept of the Absolute idea - the dynamic totality and constant supervision. Like many other Internet resources, the Chinese virtual “universal mediator” Aliexpress possesses those characteristics. It leads to the conclusion that the archetype of the Absolute Idea is the imperative, which forms the modern Internet environment.