As we know The Internet has successfully completed 25 years in this world. So here I am sharing some facts about it.

The internet connects today more than 3 billion people around the world. This corresponds to 46.1% of the world population, bringing impressive advantages over the spread of information, conducting electronic transactions, decreased distances and of course creating memes. Modern society is completely dependent on the internet. But it was not always so. And we are one of the greatest inventions of the modern world to Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist's laboratory CERN that on August 23, 1991 changed the world by opening the internet for the first time to the public.

Flickr.com Tim Berners-Lee

The Internet Has Changed Our Lives

Yes, I would be very agreeing with this point because it has really changed my life too. Internet has provided us lot many things in terms of money, life, education and many more. In simple words I can say that the Internet can do wonders for your life if you know how to use it in a proper way. There are many peoples in the world who became millionaire and earning huge money through it. They are earning because they know how to use it for survival. We can take an example of blogging business, internet marketing, Ecommerce business, tutorial sites, online gambling and other online businesses. Many people are running their online businesses from home, from office and anywhere and living the luxury life by spending their time on internet. It only happened because of Internet.

Sometimes it scares me a lot when I think what will happen if Internet will be permanently close. But thank god, it will never happen. The whole world will stop if this happen.

The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by Berners-Lee in 1989 as a means of rapid communication between scientists and researchers spread across universities and research centers worldwide. However, it soon became clear that the idea would be useful for any individual or company. For this reason, the new technology was released to the public, giving rise to a new type of individual: the Netizen , word mix 'internet' with 'astronaut' and refers to someone able to navigate in the internet space.

Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau wrote on November 12, 1990, on a proposal for what would be the World Wide Web (WWW) . The Web has become a dominant means of sharing information through the Internet, so that many people do not know that there is a difference between the two terms.

commons.wikimedia.org Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Abramatic and Tim Berners-Lee at the 10th anniversary of the WWW Consortium

In fact, the Internet is a network of networks, a way for a handful of computers, connected to each other, to share data with billions of other networks worldwide. Meanwhile, the Web is an information exchange system based on hypertext, which runs through the Internet, connecting - or linking - sites. But before it got to world homes, many people have experienced with other types of networks: the famous Bulletin Broadcast Systems or BBS . It can be said that they acted as a kind of gentler "local Internet", restricted to the cities or regions where it was necessary to make a call via phone through your computer and the other PCs on the network.

But thanks to Berners-Lee, we come to the internet as we know it today. He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) , which oversees the continued development of the web. He is also the founder of the Foundation World Wide Web and is a senior researcher and owner and founder of chair 3Com in Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Science of the MIT Computer (CSAIL). The scientist also collects other titles, such as the board of T h and Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and a position on the advisory board of the Collective Intelligence of the MIT Center . In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, DC.

In 2004, Timothy won the Millennium Technology Prize, which earned him a million Euros. Finally,a financial recognition for someone who created one of the most important inventions in human history, and did not charge anything for it.

Is that you? When you used the internet for the first time? comment here.

This article has been written by Gaurav, and source taken from wikipedia, Flickr.