WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization. But the Internet and the public telecommunication service operate different protocols, with different pricing structures and different regulatory frameworks. The World Wide Web has undergone tremendous changes with respect to visual, structural, and informational design in the last few years. Conventions, defined here as widely accepted practices, have been created and abandoned as a result of evolving interests of Web designers, hosts, and end-users. Originally designed for scientists to display data, the Web now contains next to an infinite amount of information.
Users can shop for cars, play games, and take credited courses on-line.
The Internet is an interconnected system of computer networks that has become more than the sum total of its parts. This connection of networks has become a culture, in both an anthropological, and more appropriately a postmodern framework. The phenomenon of the Internet is, in fact, most analogous to the image of a frontier. The Internet could change the lives of average citizens as much as did the telephone in the early part of the 20th century and television in the 1950s and 1960s. Researchers and social critics are debating whether the Internet is improving or harming participation in community life and social relationships.