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Last year, three young men in their twenties got together for a late-night dinner party. By the time they went home, they had come up with an idea for a website that lets people share videos online. They called it YouTube, and last week, they sold it to Google for 1.65 billion dollars in stock. Some wonder how such a new and untested business could go for so much money. But the truth is, YouTube has significantly changed the internet over the past year or so. Links to its videos are practically everywhere you turn. Tonight on the Front Porch, we're going to look at ways the internet is changing -- and how the internet is changing our lives in general.

Tonight's show features the following stories:

A Disturbance in the Force: A tale about a guy who becomes addicted to the multi-player on-line video game "Star Wars Galaxies." Soon, fantasy and reality become almost indistinguishable.

Identity Theft of the Pancake Brigade: The leader of a high school rock band tells what happened when his band was impersonated and insulted on MySpace.

Web animation: a new genre of family entertainment: A peak behind the curtain at one of the most popular internet video genres around.