BANGALORE: The music fan who loves Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Johann Sebastian Bach and The Fugees.

The man who loved watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The voracious reader who loves Shakespeare's tragedies to Toni Morrison to The Bible and Lincoln's Collected Writings. This is the picture of the Democrat as portrayed in the networking site Facebook.

And it is this net savvy attitude that helped Obama in his landslide victory in the US presidential elections thus creating history in a country that had often faced criticism for racial prejudice, thus making the dream of Martin Luther King come true.

From young school students to working women to the founder of the Internet, Vint Cerf, everybody used the potential of the medium to campaign for Obama, who believed that “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time”.

On the election day every minute, updates were uploaded in the websites. And when the news of his victory was declared, it was a flood of greetings. “You showed America -- and the world -- that change can happen,” says a posting at my.barackobama.com by a group identified as Sam, Chris, Amanda, Molly, Sarah, George, and the rest of the HQ Blog crew.

“Thank you for the miles you walked, the doors you knocked, the phones you rang, the hard-earned dollars you gave, the spirit you committed to this campaign. Thank you for never wavering, even when the days were dark, the clouds grayed the skies, and the rain poured…” it reads.

And another had uploaded a list of ten songs to celebrate the victory of Obama, even before the results were out.

“I’m ready for this change, this country has a lot of bad history, finally we can have a start of good, and maybe the rest of the world will stop hating us. Obama for President!” reads a Facebook entry.

“MY DAUGHTER AND I VOTED TOGETHER IN SAN DIEGO FOR YOU!” said another.

“I am so proud of you!! I wish you the best of luck tonight, and in office. Atlanta loves Obama!!” says Dana, another Obama fan.

"US president is Mr. Obama. Now we know that the world is going to change, wars to stop and we live happy life. Long live mr. president...." so goes the words of a thrilled blogger.

According to a blogger identified as Natalie, “You won my vote with your class and never failing integrity. For the first time in a while, I believe American can and will change. And for the better!”

Though Internet has been moving to the mainstream of political life in the US for some years, this is for the first time that the medium has really created history sorts in an election in the US, or for that matter anywhere in the world.

It is said that right from the beginning, even before the run-up for the nominations, Obama camp had embraced social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to meet their goal.

And by the time he won the nomination his website was fully developed. In a sense it was his Internet strategy that helped him win the Democratic nomination, says Phil Noble, an expert who tracks trends in relation to the Internet and politics.

Everybody who voted for Obama believes that “change is coming”, as many blogposts read. And that is the world expecting from him. And what do you think? Is there any change in the air?