In 1969 the Advanced Research Projects Agency intens, connecting four In 1969 the Advanced Research Projects Agency intens, connecting four major universities in the USA. Developed for school education, and government offices, it provides a communications network linking the country in case of a natural disaster, military or maybe a terrorism attack, for example, destroys conventional communications systems like phone or radio. 1972 e-mail is introduced by a computer scientist named Ray Tomlinson. He uses the „@“ sing the very first time to dstinguish between name and network. 1973 TCP/IP (the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is born. It becomes the standart for communications between computers and the net. Since 1982 it is formaly named „Internet“. In the next eight years, a new system called DNS is established, with network addresses identified by extensions like .org, .edu, and .com, Quantum Computer Services (later AOL) debuts, the first virus with the name Internet Worm shuts down nearly a tenth of the world's servers an the first indexing system is create.

Now the Internet brought a need for speed.

So DSL was first developed in 1990. It was designed for video. DSL is a technologie that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. In early 1994, a Forum is founded, to bring together all those individuals, companies and organisations with interests in developing and promoting ADSL, but it is very expensive. Since 1998 DSL is getting cheaper and is payable for normal useres. Today dsl-flat rate is at all hours and days of the year a fixed and cheap tarif and even available for almost all www-layman.

After all, it is becoming a big part of modern life. Roughly three-quarter of the Europeans have access to the Internet. and it is still growing and at least there are over 100 million sites online.