Internet Democracy -The new Media

The origins of the Internet dates back to the late 1960’s when the US Defence Department developed a command communication system for military contractors and universities doing military research to exchange information. The system known as the Arpanet sends packets of information off in the general direction of its goal, leaving routeing equipment along the path to forward the packets by whatever route is available. In the late 70’s Arpanet was adopted by the US National Science Foundation to create the early Internet. The usage of Internet first started with Universities being connected to super computers. This enabled information retrievals. JANET or Joint Academic Network, similarly to the Internet was developed in Britain however its employment was incompatible (Holderness, 1993).
Today, the Internet is one of the largest communications network. More than 12 million people around the world have access to the Internet and the percentage is increasing by 10 per cent every mon...