In the 1990s, Europeans still used a telephone-based modem (which made a distinct sound when 'dialling up') to connect to the World Wide Web, the user-friendly part of the Internet. With seemingly infinite possibilities, some may have felt this new digital world – or ‘Cyberspace’ – would forever mean the end of national borders.
Indeed, on 8 February 1996, an American named John Perry Barlow wrote a Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberGet EU news that matters