history of the Internet

The idea of a home-based global information system dates back at least as far as 1959 as depicted in Isaac Asimov’s short story “Anniversary”, in which characters look up information on a home computer connected to a “planet wide network of circuits”.

Interestingly enough, it was 1990 before Tim Berners-Lee, “the father of the world wide web”, an independent contractor at CERN, Switzerland, completed all the tools necessary for a working web – the first browser, the first web server, and the first web pages that described the project itself.