Just a couple of decades ago, there was a certain way that things were done and nothing ever deviated from that time-tested, age-old approach to business and entertainment. The people were entertained and educated by mountains of content but there was little independence from the system that had existed for generations.

And then the world wide web came onto the scene and things started to change. Slowly but surely, the way that we consume and create has been democratized and now we live in a wildly transformed landscape that looks remarkably different from the one that previous generations knew.