The Internet and the World Wide Web have provided a new medium for culture, generally labelled cyberculture, because it
exists in cyberspace, 'the conceptual space where computer networking hardware, network software and users converge'
The Internet and the Web made possible a culture apparently free of many of the constraints that operated in other media. The Web was decentralized and outside the control of governments, elites, and business corporations. Information could be freely exchanged without anyone censoring or editing it. When on the Net, people were anonymous and could assume, and play with, any identity they chose. With others they could construct their own virtual communities, their own society, their own world. They were free of their relationships, their communities, their bodies.