Internet, a new means of communication which allows us to communicate over great distances with an impressive result, the Internet has improved long distance communication with its ever-increasing means of communication. In this essay I will develop my understanding of the Internet as a new means of communication, I will also state relevant theories and examples to support my result. “The paradigm of the new mode of communication and clearly the emerging infrastructure for the hypermedia environment is networked computing, and in particular, the loose conglomeration of globally networked computers known as the Internet” (Deibert, p.131). The Internet began in the 1970s as a US military experiment, where they designed a computer network called "Arpanet" that would survive a nuclear attack; the main theory of the network was a form of distributed communication without any central control. The Arpanet ultimately became an information search tool for the public. As the Internet became Arpanet's successor in the early 1990s, networked communication exploded to include individuals around the world, connected by the anarchic network of computers, surfing, sharing information, and chatting online. The Internet has become a phenomenal phenomenon as everyone, from governments to universities, businesses and individuals, are exploring this means of communication. The growth of Internet users was indescribable as it now spread across the globe; The Internet was now user-friendly. The World Wide Web emerged due to the growth of the Internet and revolutionary development, which allows the integration of hypertext and multimedia links in a single platform. "By providing a global hypertextual network,...... middle of paper......ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=/webapps/blackboard/execute/launcher%3Ftype% 3DCourse%26id%3D_2878_1%26url%3Dhttps://blackboard.le.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=/webapps/blackboard/execute/launcher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_2878_1 %26url %3Dhttps://blackboard.le.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp%3Fattachment%3Dtrue%26navItem%3Dcontent%26content_id%3D_561171_1% 26course_id% 3D_2878_1%26displayName%3Dthe%2Bworld%2Bwide%2Bweb%2Bof%2Bsurveillance%2540%2Bthe%2Binternet%2Band%2Boff%2Bworld%2Bpower%2Bflows.pdf%26href%3D/%2540%2540/AA8A813A99BD4A059CE4EB843 3/course/1 / MS2007/content/_561171_1/the%252520world%252520wide%252520web%252520of%252520surveillance%252540%252520the%252520internet%252520and%252520off%252520world%252520power%252520 stream. pdf