Take a trip to the local grocery store or newsstand, and you might come back unhappy about your appearance. Photos of waif-like celebrities; glimmering, rockhard, bikini-clad bodies; and flawlessly airbrushed faces fill magazine stands and stare at you as you wait in line.

The Internet used to be a technological curiosity; a garnish atop a budding phenomenon called home computing. Now, it’s a fixture so deeply intertwined in our daily lives that we even have it on our cell phones.