ABC has a look back on the history of politics on the internet from Leslie Harris of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

During this election cycle, the political process finally found the digital alchemy that married impact activism with Internet innovation. We’ve seen “Citizen 2.0” take “Web 2.0” and fashion “Election 2.0” into an engine of personal democracy; this revolution wasn’t televised, it was digitized. And it almost didn’t happen.