"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".

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency

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

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol

Delivers packets from client to server and reassembles them

Internet Protocol Data is broken into packets

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: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hyp

ertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

HTTP Hyper text transfer protocol Method for transferring information

across the world wide web

URL Uniform Resource Locator Technical name for a web page address

INTERNET BACKBONE

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

WIKI

Blog (Weblog)A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.

http://lavieenginger.blogspot.com/My hilarious niece’s blog:

Your favorite blogs?

Social Media Facebook Twitter My space

Impact on business and personal life?

My neighbor’s business – a good example of marketing using social media