The Internet drives worldwide standards. TCP/IP, HTML, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, POP, IMAP and so on are the standards that became the glue that binds the world together electronically. The global adoption of Internet standards caused the largest expansion of communications the world has ever witnessed. See
TCP/IP,
HTML,
SMTP,
HTTP,
FTP,
POP,
IMAP,
Internet,
Internet Engineering Task Force,
W3C and
standards.