Pavlovich V. Superior Court Of Santa Clara County

"The Internet is an international network of interconnected computers" which "enable[s] tens of millions of people to communicate with one another and to access vast amounts of information from around the world." (Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997) 521 U.S. 844, 849-850.) "The best known category of communication over the Internet is the World Wide Web, which allows users to search for and retrieve information stored in remote computers, as well as, in some cases, to communicate back to designated sites. In concrete terms, the Web consists of a vast number of documents stored in different computers all over the world." (Id. at p. 852.) On the Web, "documents, commonly known as Web `pages,' are . . . prevalent." (Ibid.) These pages are located at Web sites and have addresses marking their location on the Web. (See ibid.) If a Web page is freely accessible, then anyone with access to a computer connected to the Internet may view that page. With its explosive growth over the past two decades, the Internet has become " `a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide human communication.' " (Id. at p. 850.)