The Internet was probably the single most important influence on American culture in the final few years of the twentieth century. Not only did e-mail (see entry under 1990s—The Way We Lived in volume 5) revolutionize the way people communicated with one another, but the World Wide Web brought information, entertainment, new ways of shopping, and access to government into American homes. By 2001, the Internet had been available to a mass audience for less than a decade. In that short amount of time, it had sparked debates about censorship, challenged legal systems around the world, and altered the way.....
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