The Internet as we know it today (to some extent) has been around for about 25 years. The result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw the potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development, the Internet has developed into an intricate information center that connects people with millions of pages of information from all around the world. What brought the Internet from a simple, shared network used by researchers to complex and virtual landscape we see today?