10 Significant Milestones in the History of the Internet and World Wide Web

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Almost all of us take for granted our information and communication exchange and give no thought to the Internet and web history that made it all possible. Not any more. Reading this article will keep you in the know.

Seeing we made it to the twentieth anniversary this August 6th 2011 since the web became a publicly available service on the Internet, it would be interesting to take a walk back in time, through the web of history archives, and reminisce on how far we have come today from the humble beginnings of the Internet and World Wide Web with these 10 significant milestones.

Birth of the Internet and the World Wide Web 

The start of the Internet as we know it did not start in a single day. It came about as a series of events right from 1945 with the publishing of an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex by Vannevar Bush that was later read by Douglas Engelbart, who in turn invented the mouse, the GUI and the first hypertext system tested in 1968   more...