The Canadian-American CGI-animated series ReBoot was the first half-hour CGI-animated series to ever hit television and it experienced somewhat of a roller coaster life cycle.
The show takes place in Mainframe, a city "inside" the computer of the “User,” and followed Bob, Mainframe's Guardian (basically the city's Internet Security and System Optimizer), his friend Dot Matrix, who started off life on the show as the owner of a diner, and her little brother Enzo. Early in the show's life, each episode was essentially a standalone that focused on the User playing computer games, which would send a big digital column of purple energy down into a random section of the city. Anything caught within the energy would be "trapped" inside a computer game, basically acting as the human opponent's enemy A.I., and had to beat said human opponent to make it out alive. It was Bob's job to get into the games, beat the human, and make sure everyone and everything trapped within survived the game.
Eventually, ReBoot dropped the standalone format and focused on a continuing saga, which actually got really good (and ended in such an unexpected way), which included Bob being lost in the Internet, and Enzo jumping from computer to computer trying to find Bob and his way back home. The portrayal of the Internet included the characters flying around inside of it in a ship, and a character called Ray Tracer, who was the physical manifestation of a search engine (no, I don’t know why he was named that if he was a search engine) and was able to hop between the Net and the Web. The Web that Ray Tracer surfed was fairly psychedelic-looking at times, adding to the whole "it'd be awesome if this is how the Internet actually looked!" thing. Though a relatively obscure cartoon nowadays, ReBoot is one of the most extensive examples of p[ortrayethe Internet (and computers in general) portrayed as a physical space.
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