“Before the 1990s, the world consisted of one-way media formats. Newspapers told us the stories they felt were important, cut out information they felt to be irrelevant, and gave us a very limited view of the world. Radio brought us news, talk, and music entertainment that someone else thought we would find interesting or compelling. Television brought us moving images from around the world, effectively expanding our world while at the same time narrowing our point of view to the size of a 20-inch screen.
Today we have a type of media that doesn’t just let us consume news and information the way we used to, but it also lets us create our own news and information to share with the rest of the world. The World Wide Web brought us people who built their own web pages, posting everything from text and images, to sounds and video. But these web pages were difficult to create and maintain at first, and they weren’t very interactive…” (Retrieved on August 12, 2008 from http://www.understandmedia.com/art033.htm).