The article presents a comparison of Internet and radio's popular developments. Although the Internet and the radio differ in many respects, they share important similarities. The technical aspects of radio use depend on the limited resources of the ether, while there are no such natural limits to transmitting data over the Internet. Regarding their uses, the radio today is mainly a broadcast medium, whereas the Internet encompasses the functions of all existing media. Despite these and other differences, the origins and early evolution of these two media are similar in many ways. Most important is that much like the Internet, the radio in its earliest years was also a one-to-one communication medium and only later became primarily a broadcast medium. The broad diffusion of a communication medium eventually prompts both the public and private sectors to establish regulating mechanisms. A hundred years ago, the radio was viewed by the public as the wireless alternative to the telephone. The Internet was created as a tool for sharing computer resources across geographical distances.