The Internet’s beginnings took place in a United States Department of Defense program for a strategic computer network. It was designed to carry sensitive and critical data over a computer network that was supposed to be able to remain intact in the event of nuclear attack. The project was called ARPANET, for “Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

E-mail, or electronic mail, was one of the first social mediums available to visitors in cyber space. Developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, e-mail originally allowed users to only post mail messages to individual accounts across a single network.

It may be impossible to over-emphasize the importance of links to the fiscal health of any web-based business or Internet marketing strategy.