It is amazing , how simple ascii text in the 1960s evolved in to the internet.
Back int he 90s, much of the stuff which fuelled the internet were Email and online chatting or for educational reference, then came the turning point - PORN. It played a big part in the rise of the internet to what it is today.
Midway ecommerce played a siginificant role. And now it is pollitics which seems to the next logical evolution of the internet.