12.01.2014 - 23:44 [ Guardian ]

Two decades on, we must preserve the internet as a tool of democracy

If the internet is the road system for the digital world, then the world wide web is the car – the tool we use daily for work and play. It seems almost impossible to remember what unconnected life was like; some of us are old enough to remember living without the web, old enough to have used typewriters at university, microfiches in the school library and can recall the first mention of something called „Hotmail“.