General Article History of the internet: a timeline throughout the years

Topic Selected: Digital World Book Volume: 459

From the days of dial-up to the development of fibre and 5G. Here is all you need to know about the history of the internet.

By Max Bennett

The Internet has been around for longer than you might think. The first email was sent way back in 1971, and computers first started to digitally share information in 1983.

By the 1990s, it had gained widespread attention, partly thanks to Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web in 1989. It introduced the ability to create websites and provided ...

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