ABSTRACT
The Internet has been through some massive changes and several dramatic reversals of fortune since its origins in the late 1960s. According to the International Telecommunications Union, by June 2018, 55.1 percent of the world’s population had access to the Internet. In 2017, the last year when more detailed figures were available, 7.4 billion people in developed countries had access; in undeveloped countries, 41.3 percent. The Internet has many attributes which, when taken individually, may mirror other media, but when bundled together, make it a unique venue for enjoying entertainment. Web series, which in the past were most often referred to as webisodes, are serialized stories that are broken into short installments, each just a few minutes long, and each of which often ends in a cliffhanger. The terms webisode and Web series can be used interchangeably. The blog, short for Web log, is one of the most pervasive forms of communication on the Internet.
