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Old 02-28-2005, 01:42 PM  
Lester
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Just googled "history of the internet" and came across this paragraph:

It was only in 1991 that what we now call the World-Wide Web was introduced, developed by » Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, with assistance from Robert Caillau (while both were working at » CERN. Tim's now a member of the » W3C). Tim saw the need for a standard linked information system accessible across the range of different computers in use. It had to be simple so that it could work on both dumb terminals and high-end graphical X-Window platforms. He got some pages up and was able to access them with his 'browser'.

Sounds about right.

Usenet, arpanet etc seem to go back into the 70s, 60s, etc
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