It's so ingrained into our daily lives today that it's amazing to think the internet was used by less than a tenth of the UK population as recently as 1997.
Indeed, such was the relentless rise in connectivity in the years that followed, this figure had risen to more than a third by 2001 and now stands at more than 95 per cent.
As such, many people under 30 won't even remember the world without the internet and the idea of it being something you just occasionally used on a PC in the spare room will be completely alien to the eternally-connected smartphone generation.
