1. "The Internet's pace of adoption eclipses all other technologies that preceded it. Radio was in existence 38 years before 50 million people tuned in; TV took 13 years to reach that benchmark. Sixteen years after the first PC kit came out, 50 million people were using one. Once it was opened to the general public, the Internet crossed that line in four years." - quote from the U.S. Department report "The Emerging Digital Economy".

2. ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Original ARPANET (1969)
branch of the military that developed top secret systems and weapons during the Cold War.
Original ARPANET (1969)
Stanford
UCLA
UC-Santa Barbara
University of Utah

3. TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol
Delivers packets from client to server and reassembles them
Internet Protocol
Data is broken into packets

4. CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
Birthplace of the World Wide Web
A project to share information between researchers in the early 1990s
April 30, 1993 – Cern announces that the World Wide Web can be free to everyone
First published web page:

5. HTTP Hyper text transfer protocol
Method for transferring information across the world wide web

6. URL
Uniform Resource Locator
Technical name for a web page address

7. Internet backbone

9. Wiki
A web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.

10. Blog (Weblog)
A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.
My hilarious niece’s blog:
Your favorite blogs?

11. Social Media Facebook Twitter My space
Impact on business and personal life?
My neighbor’s business – a good example of marketing using social media