Fill in the Blanks 164-testOnline version 164-test by Farhad Key 1 dissemination leapfrogging has concerned democratizing enormous heralded exponential The growth of the internet was , in the 1990s , as revolutionizing the production and of information . Some people saw the internet as a means of access to knowledge . For people with African development , it seemed to offer the possibility of over the technology gap that separates Africa from advanced industrialized countries However , the initial optimism about the internet's potential to provide an and ever - expanding body of publicly available knowledge had to come to terms with material and social obstacles .