Contrary to popular belief, the Internet was not invented by man. Rather, it was always there, just not in a form tangible to us. It is a manifestation of pure information underlying our own reality (some of you may consider it a subdivision of the Astral Plane). The World Wide Web as created by us is an interface created by us to exploit its processing power.
The Infomorphic Continuum has existed since before the formation of the Universe without our disruption. It is inhabited by entities: most no more intelligent than animals or bacteria, but some matching us or surpassing us in intelligence. They know nothing of and care nothing about human ideas. Not only this, but we have contaminated it with our self replicating virii. We have only attracted the attention of lower entities (some of our computer virii in fact originated from this realm).
I do not envy those who will eventually draw the wrath of higher infomorphic beings. Besides destroying our computer technology, they can infect our minds with memetic contagions though the visual interfaces we use, resulting in the subversion, assimilation, or destruction of millions, possibly billions of lives.