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The term "net art" was coined by Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic. In December 1995, he encountered a software glitch in an anonymous email that was mangled in transmission. Most of it looked like alphanumeric gibberish but he could make out the words "net.art". Cosic started to use this term to describe online art and communications. The term would eventually refer to the merging of a wide range of artistic practices through the use of communications, images, text, graphics, and email.

Today, artists working on net art do so in an enlarged practice. Some net artits, like the Belgian/Dutch group JODI, use the internet's coded existence as a medium for their art. The underlying codes would create images while the content on the web page would appear as indescernable words and letters. Some artists have also created Narratives by using the web as a story-tool. One such example is a work known as "My Boyfriend Came Back From the War" created by artist Olia Lialina. It tells the story of a couple reuniting after a non-specified conflict. In other cases, net art aims to highlight the aesthetic aspects of the web's constructive elements. Such case is apperent in Mark napier's "The Shredder" which is an an unconventional browser that deconstructs web pages and displays them as if actually gone through a real shredder. Net Art is a very large umbrella term for the many possibilities of creativity through the web.