BRIDGE is the Internet. All of the others came about as a result of getting access to what was once a government system of communication.
The WWW allowed us to be linked together on what was called in the early days "the information super highway" because of the speed and distance that information could cover.
Think about how it went mainstream. Everyone started with a free trial of AOL off a CD that came in the mail.
Sure, I will sign up for a subscription we said. Here is my personal information to create an account. What if that was the start of backdoors? Who looked at what was on the AOL CDs?
The internet became a drug, once you got a taste you wanted more. We began to crave it while becoming more isolated as individuals.