This reading was interesting to read because I didn’t realize that the term “internet art” actually had a specific date in which it was coined in 1995 but rather I thought it was just a term which had happened from artist putting their art on the internet. To hear that it was actually derived from an email that was incorrectly sent is pretty cool to read. From reading this I also learned about the importance in which Eastern European people and countries had in shaping and creating the internet we know today. I think this isn’t very widely known because the internet my generations knows is widely dominated by English websites and specifically American websites so to learn this is very interesting. It’s also interesting how the early users of the internet saw themselves as a fringe group away from the constraints of the normal art scene as they could publish and create as they so pleased. I think this still holds true for the internet as a whole as in many ways the internet has relived many forms of art from these constraints, as we’ve seen several artists become famous through the internet first rather through the classic record label push. Finally I think that in one way that the early internet art users would be disappointed to see that the internet has become so cluttered and commercialized, which is something kind of sad because even I can see this from having been using the internet in the early 2000s to using it now, it is a very different experience. The internet is so clean now and commercial and it is not nearly the free space for the people of the fringes to congregate anymore.