The Internet has created an information community without borders.
Information has become internationally available
Internauts, (normal and addicted ones) , softwares, all sort of informations, billions of messages by e-mails, billions of downloads every year, bugs of all kinds, computer crashes, million of new...
At CERN by Tim Berners-Lee
A long time ago, about 1995 or so, when Al Gore made iti say 1969...... that's what i heard