Internet literacy is the basic literacy for the survival and development of individuals in the information age, especially in the Internet age. Based on the epochal and developmental requirements of key competence, the article expounded the inevitability and reality of the evolution of information literacy to Internet literacy; combed the origin of Internet literacy research and the connotation of internet literacy, analyzed the research status, practice progress and existing problems of Internet literacy, and put forward five suggestions to promote the research and education practice of Internet literacy.