A mycologist likened the internet to the beneficial fungal networks that are the key to every healthy environment.
"Fungal networks also boost their host plants' immune systems. That's because, when a fungus colonises the roots of a plant, it triggers the production of defense-related chemicals. These make later immune system responses quicker and more efficient, a phenomenon called "priming". Simply plugging in to mycelial networks makes plants more resistant to disease.
But that's not all. We now know that mycorrhizae also connect plants that may be widely separated. Fungus expert Paul Stamets called them "Earth's natural internet" in a 2008 TED talk. He first had the idea in the 1970s when he was studying fungi using an electron microscope. Stamets noticed similarities between mycelia and ARPANET, the US Department of Defense's early version of the internet."
http:// www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
The internet allows the sharing of all that is needed to shed light where there was once dark, from sea to shining sea.