An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media

CHAPTER 10

The Internet

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

— Sir Isaac Newton

The Internet exists as a global digital network linking computers of universities, corporations, government agencies, scientific laboratories, and private citizens providing interactive communication between individuals and among members of networks.

Introduction

The Internet revolutionized the field of communication to a greater extent than any other technical or social change in the history of humankind. The Internet created a worldwide controlled broadcast system offering the means to disseminate information, provide collaboration, and allow interaction among groups and between individuals through some ...