This website is dedicated to the ways that the internet has changed how we tell stories, the genres it made popular and the tropes it made obsolete.
Originally, the only way to tell a story to the general public was to have them published by a third-party, such as a publishing house or a film studio, a long and arduous process unavailable to many people. Now, all you have to do is simply sign up to one of many different writing sites online and have your story out there for everyone to see nigh instantaneously.
Similarly, it used to be that you had to go to a bookstore or a cinema in order to find and pay for a story you might enjoy, with a chance that you might not even find one. Now, the vast variety of videos and books available online ensures that you will eventually find something interesting for free, the only limit being your determination to find it.
Using existing stories as a basis for creating new ones, while certainly nothing new, saw a surge in popularity online not only due to the aforementioned new ways to create and consume stories, but also because of a better ability for people to interact, allowing them to share ideas and criticisms. There are even websites, such ArchiveOfOurOwn and FanFiction.net, that are completely dedicated to creating and reviewing fanfiction, for better or for worse.
Cyberpunk is a dystopian future sci-fi genre characterised by contrasting vast scientific progress, such as A.I. and cybernetics, with societal corruption and collapse. While this genre dates back to the sixties and seventies, the genre truly soared, both in terms of popularity and creativity, thanks to the capabilities of the internet, such as panopticonism. A large part of recent cyberpunk media discusses the concept of megacorporations, companies so big that they hold semi-governmental power. This means that, as a storytelling device, they can be used to criticise both the government's use of the internet to monitor people and corporations' use of the internet to collect data.
A lot of older media feature plots that depend on the characters being unable to contact other people, such as Jurassic Park and many slasher films. While still a possibility, it is much easier to communicate with others from a far distance thanks to advancing technologies, causing many modern adaptations of stories to have to either come up with an excuse or find a way to write around this.
Common mostly in spy stories, the act of recording conversations was seen as a thing that needs to be set up in advance. Nowadays, with the multitude of devices capable of recording conversations, not only is this trope less frequent outside of period pieces, it's replacement, secret recordings are easy, is seen in many different genres.