ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.

by Abhay Bhushan and published on 16 April 1971. Until 1980, FTP ran on NCP, the predecessor of TCP/IP. The protocol was later replaced by a TCP/IP version,(June 1980) and RFC 959 (October 1985), the current specification.

ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there, researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee, posted a summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it.

Netscape ,the first commonly available web browser with a graphical user interface. Browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser"

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend named Susan Wojcicki in Menlo Park, California.

YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, who along with co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, saw a hole in the internet for a service that allowed people to share personal videos easily. It caught on spectacularly and within a year was showing 25 million videos a day.

The first version was a beta for Microsoft Windows and was released on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages. OS X and Linux versions were released in December 2009.

Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unleashed the photo-sharing platform that, though they didn't know it at the time, would soon become a selfie-filled, multi-billion-dollar beast used by 500 million people.

As of today technology is a huge part of our lives and has been a great resource. The internet is still growing today with new things and getting better every day.