Pilgrims came from England who seek assylum in united states because they did not have a religious freedom at their country at that time. Most of the english people at that period never see pumpkins in their life, let alone know that they can it. When they arrived in new England, the native welcome them to their tribes and taught them how to grow pumpkins.
The internet revolution is much like the print revolution in the way they both promote knowledge using simpler and easier tools that are easy to spread.