Nowadays, alluding to the Internet by talking about new
technologies practically makes no sense. Even though we can still
argue over accessibility conditions and some issues of censorship,
we are, by far, in the presence of a technology vastly installed
all over the world. So much so that a large majority of its
inhabitants don´t even imagine how they it would have been
living without it.
Something which barely a couple of years ago was groundbreaking,
now it has turned into commonplace. The practices introduced by the
Internet in terms of searching, sharing, distributing and
reproducing contents have gone truly internalized to the point of
seeming the only possible options these days. And yet, no matter
how old enough you are, it seems hard to remember those ancient
practices of studying in the library, lending cassettes or renting
a VHS.
