In the 1960's, fearing spies from the USSR were listening to their intelligence agents' telephone conversations, the US advanced research project agency began working on the ARPANET, with operations beginning in 1969. Two years after the inauguration, four nodes were connected and the TCP protocol was born. By the end of the decade, multiple computers across both oceans were added.
in the 80's, scientists used it to exchange information. Tim Berners Lee made sharing easier by creating the HTML language and the files for the World wide web. The Web became public in the mid 90's, and with the advent of windows 95 it had a boom, with the creation of the dot-com bubbe and a terrible fear of the millenium bug.
The Y2K problem was solved, and in the early 2000's the dot-com bubble bursted, leaving some companies out of buisness. However, in that decade social media were born, and had a boom also with the help of Iphones. Nowadays, our lives are broadcasted on the web, while others become shut-ins and our smarphone knows what we say and where we are. Dystopic, isn't it?