The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) went online in December 1969, creating a link for research and education between four major U.S Universities. The technology was also harnessed for defence reasons, connecting the country in the event that conventional means were unavailable.
The technology took a big step forward in 1972 with the creation of e-mail and then again in the next year with the creation of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). IP addresses allow easier access to a network and felicitate the ability for File Transfer Protocol and downloading files from a remote server.
The term "internet" was first used in 1982, but it was on March 12, 1989 is when I took another major step forward. Sir Tim Berners-Lee was working at Swiss physics laboratory CERN (Better know for its later work with the Large Hadron Collider) when he presented a technical blueprint for "the world wide web."
The response from his seniors was "Vague, but exciting."
Berners-Lee pressed CERN into creating an online telephone directory for the laboratory, and this began to show people the potential of the idea he had created. The innovation created through hypertext that allowed hyperlinks into a for of net like structure, a web if you will.
It was not until 1993 that Marc Andreeson created the first web browser Mosaic, that the technology really took off, as Prof Murtagh head of computer science as De Montfort University, says, "The web made the transfer and sharing of documents quicker and easier, and it still does today."
...and that's why I'm subjected to your damned food pictures. So, Happy Birthday to the internet 25 years old (But if you ask me you don't look a scratch over 21)
Until Then.
Sources:
http://news.sky.com/story/1224176/world-wide-web-celebrates-25-years
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html
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