Net.art

is the wacky, unique, and sometimes kitschy art of the 1990s.

This was when the internet was mostly new, and artists like JODI, Vuk Cosic, Olia Lialina and others wanted to experiment with connectivity and interactivity on a global scale. These artists created work that is unique to the time, culture, and political issues.
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The types of works that were created spanned from a list of phone numbers to photo booths to love letters to cyborgs. Some sites were more political in nature, such as My Boyfriend Came Back from war. Instead of a more typical website, the site feels and acts more like an interactive game or film. The works that were being created is akin to the wild wild west of the internet days; there were no precedents and the world is anyone's oyster. This set the scene for very unique artwork!
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A lot of the art that was created during this time would be the predescesor for a lot of future internet art. The net.art artists pushed the capabilities and the creativity of what is possible with the internet. Some of the art created were games. Some of the art was created with ASCII, drawing with binary integers, to make stuff like Deep ASCII, which is a pornography video turned into ASCII. Some of the art was poetry!