»What are some negative impacts it has had?

Though there are a lot of good impacts, that usually means we have a few bad ones as well. With the internet being so easily accessed, and so easily viewed, it leads to problems that corrupt our society. Such as being able to view things such as pornography.

It can lead us to bad things such as being vunerable to stalkers and rapists. All the dangerous things out there are only being helped in targeting their prey now. You never know when someone could show up on your doorstep by finding you and stalking you off of some information they found on the WWW.

Even something meant to help you, such as The White PagesCOM, can lead to bad outcomes. Now, dangerous and dark-purposed people can find your information at the click of a mouse (and some typing as well). That's why people invented spyware to help computers battle things and people like this.

Another example, would be hackers. When computers didn't exist, how would we even have that problem? But now that they do, people can steal your identity quickly and cleanly, without you ever knowing. They can access information you keep on your computer, while you presumed that no one would ever see it but you. There are things that us, the users, have to be careful of. This is one of them.