Internet celebrates birthday, turns 25

When the Web was born 25 years ago this week, it opened doors for brilliant technological minds and drove innovation and advancement that forever altered humanity, according to Fox News.

A quarter of the world's population now use the Internet, a figure that continues to grow as accessibility improves.

"The Web is humanity connected," said Anne Jellema, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation. "Twenty-five years since the birth of the Web, we’re only just beginning to scratch the surface of the social benefits [it] can deliver."

Fox News compiled a list of the some of Web's defining moments:

1. The Web's Birth
2. AOL: You've Got Mail
3. Email
4. Online Trading
5. Online Shopping
6. Google
7. Pets.com & Dotcom Bubble
8. Social Networking
9. The iPhone
10. Cyber Attacks
11. Arab Spring
12. NSA & Wikileaks
13. The Cloud
14. Bitcoin
15. The Internet of Things