The Internet was born as a result of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. In America, they believed that the USSR was about to attack them, and then back in 1957, the Soviets launched a satellite. Absolutely trouble! And they decided in the States that in case of war it is imperative to have some kind of uninterrupted communication system for early warning of missile attack. Work on new system communications called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) has been entrusted to several universities.

First steps

The first real result was obtained in 1969, on October 29th. It was on this day at 9 pm that the first successful communication attempt was made between the universities at Stanford and Los Angeles. Operator Charlie Kline in Los Angeles managed to connect to the Stanford computer and transmit the code word.

October 1969

The first e-mail program appeared in 1971 and immediately gained popularity in the United States.

In the 70s, mainly mail was transmitted over the network, there were bulletin boards. At that time, several disparate networks were already operating in the world, each operating according to its own protocol. The question arose about the unification of the data transfer process. Work in this direction began in 1973. Project leader Robert Kahn unveiled several principles by which a shared network should operate:

• Internet connection should not lead to internal alterations;
• if the information has not reached the addressee, it must be transmitted again;
• simple gateways and routers should be used for connection;
• there is no common network management system.

Robert Kahn.

In the course of working on the creation of a common network, the TCP / IP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) was developed. These principles and protocol for the functioning of the network are still in effect today. The transition of all computers on the ARPANET to the TCP / IP protocol occurred in 1983. Then for the first time the ARPANET was called the Internet.

However, in 1984, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) founded a new inter-university network NSFNet (English National Science Foundation Network), created from several smaller ones. As NSFNet's audience grew faster than ARPANET, the name Internet passed to it. This year was also marked by the emergence of the Domain Name System, DNS.

Internet in the USSR

The first transatlantic ARPANET cable from the US to Europe was laid in 1973, connecting England, Sweden and several other countries. The USSR was late, as usual, for a decade. The first Soviet computers connected to European networks in 1982. Then the employees of the All-Union Research Institute of Applied automated systems established a permanent communication channel with the Vienna Institute for Systems Analysis.

It was a purely scientific channel. The network of the Academy of Sciences began to form from it. She was not public. They could only connect scientists, but Western scientific libraries with dissertations, monographs, etc. In 1989, in the USSR, employees of the Kurchatov Institute, the Ministry of Automotive Industry began to create networks in the field, to help other citizens connect to them.

Only when cooperatives were allowed did the Relcom network appear from the Demos cooperative, but this happened already in 1990. In the same year, the SU domain belonging to the Soviet Union was registered. The process of network commercialization has begun. By the way, before the collapse of the USSR, commercial conferences helped to stabilize prices, as they were a direct source of information about where and how much. Unfortunately, these same networks played a significant role in the brain drain.

In August 1991, the Soviet Internet was one of the few channels that transmitted all the news in real time, including those that Muscovites saw with their own eyes from the windows of their apartments. These days, Relcom has connected great amount servers throughout the USSR.

The period of the formation of the worldwide network

Popular in the 90s, the Mosaic web browser was developed in 1993 by the NCSA.

Since 1995, network providers began to route network traffic, thus freeing up NSFNet university supercomputers for scientific work. At the same time, the World Wide Web Consortium W3C was created to streamline web standards. Since 1996, the WWW protocol has overtaken FTP in terms of traffic.

The combination of the http web protocol and the Mosaic web browser has contributed to the growth of the Internet. Two years after the advent of the browser, the Internet became known throughout the world. During these years, most of the networks that existed separately merged with the Internet, and those that proudly stood aside, like Fidonet, gradually faded away.

In 1994, the SU domain stopped registering new users as Russia received the RU domain. The SU domain was recommended to be slowly phased out and liquidated. However, despite the termination of registration and the recommendation to “liquidate”, the domain continued to exist semi-legally and slowly develop, until, finally, already in the 2000s, its activity was completely legalized.

By 1997, about 10 million computers were connected to the Internet around the world, more than 1 million domain names were registered. Since that time, the Internet began to turn into one of the most popular sources of information and gradually acquired a modern look.

In Russia, by 1997, the first Internet newspapers had already appeared, the Yandex.ru search engine had appeared, and hackers began to operate. True, the entire Russian Internet or Runet, as they began to call it, could easily fit on one hard drive of a modern computer. Search engines needed to find at least some information on request, therefore, any well-written article automatically got into the TOP of the results. Golden times!

The Current State of the World Wide Web

In 1998, the Pope authorized World Internet Day. The official patron saint has not yet been announced, but by default they consider Isidore of Seville, a Spanish bishop of the 6th-7th centuries, the first encyclopedist, and this significant holiday is celebrated on April 4, on the day of Isidore's ascension.

True, each country has appointed its own Internet Day. There are two such days in Russia. Runet's birthday is celebrated on April 7th. But the Moscow firm IT Infoart Stars sent letters to users with two proposals:

• consider September 30 as International Internet Day and celebrate it annually;
• conduct an all-Russian census of the Internet population.

In recent years, the Internet has spread very actively in Russia, overtaking everyone in this indicator. True, now China has pushed us, the Internet in which is spreading even faster.

But this is not smart. For example, in Moscow broadband internet available to almost everyone, i.e. the market has reached saturation. The reserve is available only in the rest of Russia: there, half of the households still live without the Internet. But many are switching to mobile devices. We have three domains at our disposal: .su, .ru and .rf

Statistics say that, for example, in 2009, the Internet brought 1.6% (19.3 billion dollars) to Russia's GDP, about the same as Spain or Italy (as a percentage). According to forecasts, in 2015 the contribution of the network economy to Russia's GDP should reach 3.7%.

Do you know at what speed I went online for the first time? 32 kilobits per second. Those who are younger probably will not even be able to imagine this. I downloaded one song in MP3 for an hour; to go online, I waited a minute until the computer through the phone with a creak (in the literal sense there was a creak) would reach the World Wide Web; popular search engines were not Yandex or Google. In general, we plunge into history.

World Wide Web: common or draw?

The Internet is a world space, an association of a system of computer networks. There are countless computers connected to it all over the world. Communication in social networks and online games have become commonplace. So familiar that we consider them not worthy of attention.

Meanwhile, the history of the Internet is an amazing thing. And immediately the discovery: the age of the first website is twenty-five years! (for 2016), look at it info.cern.ch. The Internet is a global network, this is understandable: everyone uses it, from teenagers in Washington to shamans in Alaska.

The second amazing fact: the Internet does not belong to anyone! Separate local networks connected by a worldwide network, and network providers maintain networks in working order. The bandwidth of the World Wide Web is limited, and the constant increase in the growth of media traffic, according to experts, can lead to its collapse.

It is “no one's” that has become a problem for many states: it is not possible to introduce censorship in the global network. True, the Internet has recently been equated with the media, but ... With the help of the Internet, information is transmitted. It turns out that the World Wide Web is something similar to paper or a telephone.

And how to apply censorship to paper? Sanctions can only be applied to individual sites. And no leader in the world is capable of limiting the Internet. So, the worldwide network is global freedom!

Birth

And the history of the Internet began in 1957 with the launch of an artificial satellite by the Soviet Union. In response, America decided to develop a computer network as a reliable data transmission system: in the event of a war, the United States decided to secure itself.

Leading universities of the country took up the development. The network they created was given the name ARPANET, short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The computers of that time were too far from perfect, and the development progressed with great difficulty. The project was financed by the Ministry of Defense of the country. Scientific institutions-developers united in a network in 1969.

The first communication session took place between Stanford research center and the University of Los Angeles, separated by a distance of 640 kilometers. True, only the second attempt was successful, but on this day, October 29, 1969, the Internet was born. The time of the first attempt is 21 hours, the second one is an hour and a half later.

Only in 1971 did the Pentagon manage to launch the exchange of information with scientists from the country's universities using e-mail. By 1973, ARPANET becomes international, and in 1983 the name, given to the project, became the prototype of the modern Internet. 1984 is known as the year of the introduction of domain names, and with the introduction of IRC, Internet Relay Chat or "irki", from 1988 real-time chatting became possible.

This file transfer protocol was developed in the 80s of the last century. Then the notorious Usenet was born. There was a semblance of a modern forum.

It took another ten years for the World Wide Web to cross the oceans. The idea of ​​creating a global network appeared in Europe in 1989. The ARPANET project spread across industries. 1991 - creation of the first program for transmission over the e-mail network.

Tim John Berners-Lee: creator of web tools

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And then came the time of the abbreviation www, World Wide Web. It is impossible to imagine the modern Internet without these letters. The world owes the appearance of the super-popular abbreviation to Tim Berners-Lee. The brilliant Englishman took hypertext with countless hyperlinks as the basis for organizing the storage and placement of information. After the transfer of developments to the global network, the success was tremendous: the first five years of work - the registration of more than fifty million users!

The invention led to the creation of the HTTP data transfer protocol and HTML hypertext markup. It became possible to store, transfer information and create websites. And again the problem: how to refer to documentary data? The solution was to develop URIs and URLs, Uniform Identifiers and Resource Identifiers.

Finally, a program was born for displaying network requests on a computer, that is, a browser: the old familiar Internet Explorer, verified by Mozilla Firefox, reliable Google Chrome beloved, albeit aging Opera - there are not so many well-known and well-deserved "names". But the main assistants meet all our requirements. But there are more and more programs with which we access the worldwide network.

Timothy John Berners-Lee is the author of the grandiose creation, the main tools of the modern World Wide Web. The NCSA Mosaic browser for transmitting graphic information appeared later, in 1993. Thanks to the openness of the Internet standard, the browser has retained independence from commerce. And the global network with photos, videos and pictures immediately became a favorite delicacy of mankind. By 1997, approximately ten million computers were connected to the Internet!

Berners-Lee didn't make millions from his creation. Finances literally poured into this area much later. Billions are in the hands of the creators of Google and Yandex. About their history of creation, I wrote here.

I wonder if it occurred to the creators of the World Wide Web when they started working on the project that it would be possible to connect to the network through communication satellites, Cell phones and electrical wires and even televisions, that the term Runet will appear as part of the Internet?

Now there are national domains su, ru and rf. The birth of Russian networks occurred in 1990 thanks to domestic programmers and physicists. April 7, 1994 - registration of the first Russian domain ru. On May 12, 2010, the rf domain appeared. So Cyrillic entered the modern web.

The modern network cannot even be compared with what it used to be. And many of us are grateful to the creators of the Internet from the bottom of our hearts.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who modestly proposed the creation of the Internet 28 years ago, published an open letter in which he identified the three main problems of modern users. He believes that it is necessary to solve several global issues at once, otherwise humanity will face serious consequences. figured out what threatens network users and how to prevent the Internet from turning into a global trap.

Access to nowhere

In March 1989, the British programmer Tim Berners-Lee proposed to his colleagues at CERN (European Laboratory for Nuclear Research) a World Wide Web project that would allow all information to be collected in one place and accessible from any computer. The project was approved and implemented.

Berners-Lee himself claims that he dreamed of a completely open platform and was always ready to defend its freedom, but the events of the past year made him strongly doubt the bright future of the network.

He identified three trends that are booming on the internet and could destroy it.

We no longer control our personal data

Now most sites willingly share free content in exchange for users' personal data. People are accustomed to putting up with this tacit barter and often ticking the boxes next to confidentiality agreements without question.

In fact, everyone who transfers confidential information to the administration of sites forever misses the opportunity to control it. Portals collect data and use it for their own purposes. Moreover, people often cannot decide how much information and in what form to give in exchange for content. Companies ask for what they need, and users are not allowed to discuss it.

But personal information on the Internet is needed not only for profit. Much more worrisome, Berners-Lee says, is that data can be collected by governments and intelligence agencies. The scientist is extremely concerned that laws are being passed in unfree states that allow intrusion into privacy. In countries with strict laws, bloggers can be imprisoned or killed, and political opponents can be monitored online.

He recalls the case of the arrest of a group of bloggers in Ethiopia. Six members of the Zone9 group and three associated journalists covering political and public problems in the country, was arrested in 2014 on suspicion of terrorism.

They were caught using anonymous messaging tools. This, according to the authorities, is a good reason to accuse the opposition of treason. True, all were acquitted, but some had to spend 18 months in prison. The public actively supported the activists while they were tried to intimidate them with a prison term.

The scientist warns: even in countries where citizens' data is collected in their own interests, things can go too far. In addition, the feeling that you do not belong to yourself gives rise to a banal fear of discussing important issues.

Lies are spreading too fast

Although the Internet is truly limitless, a person constantly visits only a few sites and most often uses the same search engine. All these resources earn on clicks, which means that they are interested in seeing as provocative and shocking materials as possible.

Social networks and search engines constantly collect data on the movements of users through pages, on their gender, age, social status- about everything that could be useful for improving the algorithms. In the end, we see in advertising, on websites or in search exactly what we are most likely to click on.

This is what allows fake material to spread across the network like wildfire. False news shocks, surprises, affects the taboo aspects of life, in a word, they do everything so that the user clicks on the link.

But Berners-Lee is not so much afraid of the boom of fakes as the potential harm from their use for profit or political manipulation.

Political campaigning on the Internet should be transparent

Advertising of political views, parties and leaders in recent years no longer differs from ordinary marketing. Algorithms that measure user preferences can reveal their desires and concerns, targeting propaganda to the “right” audience. Moreover, announcements with political overtones can be made individually for each voter.

According to some reports, during the 2016 presidential race in the United States, about 50,000 completely different ads were published on Facebook alone during the day. This amount of information is impossible to contain or verify.

Berners-Lee expressed suspicions that politicians are intentionally supplying their slogans with links to fake sites. These portals contained only the information that is beneficial to the candidate, seasoned with various incriminating news about the opponent.

The scientist believes that in such conditions, democracy, a favorite topic of politicians, is out of the question. Managers and curators of the election campaign tell one group of voters one thing, another - quite the opposite. The content that the user sees depends only on his personal preferences. Conservationists will gladly click on an article about how a politician actively greens, but for other, more conservative voters, the same candidate may appear as a fighter against the dominance of minorities.

Many questions, few answers

These problems, as simple as they may seem, have the potential to change the global web and erase any notion of privacy and anonymity. While people are increasingly mastering the Internet and are beginning to realize that they have their own rights in this space, states are considering options for universal control.

The creator of the World Wide Web is sure that giants like Facebook should be encouraged for their desire to develop technologies that do not allow confidential information to scatter throughout the network and fall into the hands of attackers. Berners-Lee advocates that large companies fought as actively as possible for the right to destroy fakes and in no case entrusted these functions to the state.

Remembering the years of the origin, formation and development of the network, the programmer insists that users must fight for their rights on the Internet and finally realize that even in digital world have their own rules of conduct. As in real life, scammers operate in a virtual environment, steal savings, insult and humiliate - all this makes the Internet not an addition to existing world, but its full-fledged continuation.

The creators of algorithms that adapt to user preferences usually keep their developments secret, citing their uniqueness and complexity. But Berners-Lee insists that these very algorithms affect the life of mankind, which means that they must be extremely transparent. For example, about the principle of operation Facebook feeds should know not only developers, but also ordinary people.

Political games are the blind spot of the Internet, the scientist is sure. No one regulates them, and the politicians themselves are not yet fully aware of what power they have and how to manage it. Campaigning on the Internet, especially on the political agenda, should be manageable and not turn users into obedient puppets.

Five years of the Internet

In 2009, Berners-Lee established the World Wide Web Foundation to provide access to the Internet to every earthling and protect their rights. In February, the organization presented a five-year strategy for the development of the Internet for 2017-2022. What specialists are trying to convey to the public is extremely simple: the Internet is created for everyone.

The members of the Foundation boldly declare that they are ready to fight for digital equality and a just world. The Internet was created so that everyone equally had access to all the knowledge of mankind, but it turned out that here, too, some groups of people are more powerful than others.

Berners-Lee hoped that with the help of his invention, people would be able to communicate with each other from anywhere in the world, and everyone would have the opportunity to express their point of view, participate in discussions and search for truth. But it turned out that online information isolates people, fills them with hatred, intolerance and destroys the right to privacy.

Over the next five years, the organization intends to focus on three points. The first is the right of people to be heard, and experts are ready to push for the adoption of protective laws in order to eradicate among users the fear of punishment for what is said or written on the network.

The Fund wants to hold Internet giants accountable: to force them to reveal the schemes of the algorithms that form the Internet, to stop secretly collecting information about people and transferring it to government agencies.

The third point of the program is dedicated to the female half of humanity: according to the members of the World Wide Web Foundation, it is they, as well as representatives of minorities, who can get the opportunity to fully participate in economic life, create companies and improve their financial literacy using the Internet.

In our life, it often happens that we use some useful inventions with great pleasure, but at the same time we have no idea when and by whom they were created. The same goes for the Internet. Most of us cannot imagine our life without the Global Network, we use it every day for work, study, entertainment, communication and simply searching for the necessary information. But how many people know the history of the creation of the Internet? Find out how it was by reading the article.

War and network

It is not known how soon the prerequisites for the creation of the Internet could have arisen if it were not for the "cold war" and the "arms race" that took place between the US and the USSR. As one of the results of the confrontation between two influential states, a project of the US Department of Defense called the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) appeared. This organization was tasked with developing a computer network through which secret data could be transferred in the event of a major war. However, this reason has not been officially confirmed by anyone.

The first scientist who spoke about the possibility of creating such a network was J. Licklider from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote back in 1962 about a project that he called the "Galactic Network" (Galactic Network). This idea of ​​the scientist was very close to what is currently understood as the Internet. However, the concept existed so far only in theory. Ahead were the most important steps: the search for technical capabilities and algorithms for its implementation, as well as years of experimentation in an attempt to achieve a positive result. Thus began the long history of the creation of the Internet.

Elemental research

The development of a unique computer communication was based on the concept of a packet network, the authors of which were the British physicists Donald Davis and Roger Scantlebury. Gradually it became known that in the period from 1961 to 1967, more and more specialists from the United States and Great Britain joined the work on the project, not knowing about each other. As a result, one of scientific conferences became aware of parallel studies.

It is significant that these first developments were created quite freely and spontaneously, with minimal control of the governments of both countries. And subsequently, the creator of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, noted: "We could not do anything like this if it was under the control of the state from the very beginning." Saying "we", the computer genius meant, among other things, his predecessors who created the ARPANET network.

significant day

The first successful connection was made in 1969. At that time, an ARPANET server was located at the University of California, Los Angeles, and attempts began to establish a connection between two cities: Los Angeles and Stanford, the distance between which was 640 km. It was necessary to remotely connect to another computer on the network and send a written message, and a phone was used to confirm the transmission. The experiment was carried out by university scientists Charlie Kline and his colleague Bill Duvall.

So, the year of the creation of the Internet is 1969, the day is October 29, the time is 22.30. It was then that it was possible to completely transfer the short word log (short for login, as the password for logging in to the system later became known) over a network of two computers. Thus began a long history of the creation and development of the Internet, which continues to this day.

Soon after that success, already in 1971, the first program for sending e-mail appeared. The innovation turned out to be extremely popular, and began to quickly gain popularity in the United States. In addition, in the 70s of the XX century, the history of the creation of the Internet was marked by the emergence and development of such systems as bulletin boards, mailing lists to e-mail boxes and newsgroups.

Computers of all networks, unite

At the same time, developers computer technology work was underway to create a single protocol that could combine all existing disparate networks into a single whole. The head of this large-scale project was the American inventor Robert Kahn. It was he, together with Vinton Cerf and other colleagues, who developed TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol), which is still used to connect computers in single network. For this invention, Kahn and Cerf received the unofficial titles of the "fathers" of the Internet.

The main principles of the protocol they developed are as follows:

• connection occurs without internal changes in the network;
• retransmission of unreached information;
• use of gateways and routers;
• lack of a common control system.

By 1983, the ARPANET was completely transferred to the TCP / IP protocol, after which it changed its name to the Internet, which is familiar to the modern ear. However, over time, this name was assigned to the newly formed network NSFNet, which turned out to be more popular and by 1990 had replaced its competitor.

In the same 1983, the DNS (Domain Name System) was developed - a system of domain names. Thus, the history of the creation of the Internet has taken another huge step forward.

The web is woven

And yet it was far from the Internet we know today. Yes, there was already e-mail, mailing programs, bulletin boards, and even (in 1988) the first chat room, allowing netizens to communicate in real time. However, there was no what we now call the World Wide Web - an inexhaustible source of information, consisting of many web pages interconnected by hyperlinks. All this was developed and launched only in 1989, primarily due to the work of a famous scientist from the UK. It was Tim Berners-Lee who developed the HTTP protocol, the HTML hypertext markup language, URLs for websites - in a word, everything without which it is impossible to imagine the functioning of the Internet at the present stage.

If we draw an analogy with other great inventions, we can say that theorists and experimenters with ARPANET discovered electricity, and the creator of the Internet Berners-Lee and his colleagues developed the first electrical appliances.

Websites and browsers

But the development process did not end there, but only continued at an accelerated pace. 1991 - the year of the creation of the first Internet site located at: info.cern.ch. The World Wide Web became ubiquitous, beginning the fulfillment of Berners-Lee's cherished dream that every person on the planet could take advantage of the power of the Internet. Gradually, more and more web servers and sites began to appear, which were based on software, created by a British computer genius.

Since 1993, the first browsers (Mosaic, Internet Explorer and others) began to appear, more and more people around the world connected to the Internet, and the number of sites increased to hundreds of thousands.

Internet in the USSR and Russia

The first communication channel with the World Wide Web was laid in 1982, being used exclusively for scientific purposes - to access the archives of the main European libraries. It was only in 1989 that expansion began so that ordinary citizens could gain access. A year later, the first Relcom network appeared, and the su domain was registered for the websites of the Soviet Union. News and other information began to spread through the network, as well as communication between participants, including those separated by the ocean.

World Wide Web Today

Already by 1997, the history of the creation of the Internet was almost completed, and the global network became approximately the same as we know it today. But the difference is that at that time only 10 million computers were connected to the Internet, and now the figure has reached 1.2 billion.

No previous means of communication has achieved such stunning results in such a short time.

The current trend in the development of the Internet is its distribution in the developing countries of the world, as well as access through a variety of devices: communication satellites, radio channels, cable TV, telephone and cellular, electric wires and dedicated lines.

The Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives. In just 5 years, the Internet, or as we also call it, the World Wide Web or the Global Network has become popular among millions of people. Now many of us cannot imagine life without this brilliant invention. Have you ever thought about who we are grateful for such an interesting and useful thing? Who Invented the Internet? Who is the creator of the Global Network? And why was the Internet invented in the first place?

In 1957, the US Department of Defense first thought about the reliable transmission of information. It was necessary to create such a system for transmitting messages that even in the event of a nuclear war, this system did not fail. The US Defense Research Projects Agency came up with the idea of ​​using computers as sources for receiving and transmitting information. And for this it was necessary to develop a computer network. Four US universities were commissioned to implement the idea: the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Utah, the University of Santa Barbara and the Stanford Research Center.

And in 1969, a talented group of scientists created a computer network called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), which united these 4 universities.

By 1973, the ARPANET had become international. Organizations from Norway and Great Britain connected to the network using a transatlantic telephone cable. By the end of the 70s, they began to actively work on the standardization of data protocols, which were successfully standardized in 1982-1983.

John Postel took an active part in the development of network protocols. Since Jon Postel is the author of many network protocols that are still in use today: IP, ICMP, TCP, FTP, DNS, many people call him the man who created the Internet or the father of the Internet.

By early 1983, after the ARPANET switched to the newly created TCP / IP network interconnection protocol, the name that we now successfully use, “Internet”, was assigned to it.

All this time the computer network was available to a limited number of people. And only in 1991, after the standardization of the WWW (World Wide Web) pages, the World Wide Web becomes a public invention of the United States.

So in what year was the Internet created?

As you understand, in what year the Internet was invented cannot be answered unambiguously. Because the very concept of "Internet" and our modern World Wide Web appeared much later than the very idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcreation and its predecessor, the ARPANET. But these questions can be combined with the following question: who and when invented and created the first Internet? In 1957, the idea came to the mind of specialists from DARPA (Defense Agency research projects USA) and 12 years later, a group of talented university scientists created the first ARPANET computer network. And in what year our modern Internet was created, you can determine for yourself - in 1983, when the very concept of "Internet" appeared, or in 1991, when the network became public domain.

In conclusion, we can say that it is impossible to single out one single person from the circle of people who worked on the creation of the World Wide Web and invented the Internet. Mankind was moving towards this discovery gradually, even Nikola Tesla in 1908, speaking about the idea of ​​using electrical information communication, predicted the emergence of the Global Network: “When the project is completed, a businessman in New York will be able to dictate instructions, and they will immediately appear in his office in London .... In the same way, any image, symbol, drawing, text can be transferred from one place to another ... And most importantly, all this will be transmitted wirelessly ... "