Since the early 1990s the Internet has changed our lives significantly. It has proved to be the faster and cheapest way to communicate with over 150 million people in more than 100 countries all over the world, find and share informations and images of all types selected from an online database.

Whether in homes, business or schools, computers are more powerful than ever because they can linked to any source of stored information through modems coverting data, like photos and texts, into electronic signs and World Wide Web pages that appear on the home computer screen. On the Internet, giant computers are linked together via a web of telephone lines and fibre-optic cable.

Cellular phones can let caller connect to the Net to pick up e-mail and navigate the websites via a small electronic display. On the Internet it is also possible to compose and find multimedia hypertexts proposing nonlinear writing in which content lines can be unfold in different ways by clicking on nouns, adjectives and verbs. Now people have access, in a networked global system, to the same movies, home videos, data, music, goods, ideas, etc...