An estimated 70 million people have access. The Internet reaches almost every country in the world. Technology has given us the ability to communicate and share information in very different ways on the Internet.
People can have real-time voice or video conversations between different countries.
Huge files can be moved between computers with ease. Technology is not slowing down. It started back in the early 1970's as a small network of computers run by the Department of Defense. These computers were used for researchers to work with colleagues around the US and in other countries. It grew slowly at the start with only a thousand computers by the 1980's.