How was the Internet a turning point in history?

[Mike]

Internet changed the way people access information. The following important things changed:

- jobs now more accessible; job search is easier as companies made websites and applications for work are via email

- pornography industry is now more open; bestiality, bdsm, fetishes and other taboo sex practices are easily found on Internet and chat forums exist

- online dating and chatting sites connect the world; marriages, friendships and hobby circles are more easily arranged now

- paper books are now threatened with extinction; encyclopedias, telephone books, newspapers and magazines are now more often used online

- government can no longer easily control public; general population of most countries with Internet can exchange information that is normally considers anti-establishment and revolutionary

- marketing and business companies can more easily spy on people through surveys online and through Facebook and other online diary websites, thus making selling products more easily