Who knew, I thought Al Gore invented the internet! It was actually created in rare form back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This was mostly used for intra-network communication; two or more stations could communicate with each other if they were on the same network. This officially was the start of the Internet, but none of us would recognize it.
In the 1980s there were many advancements to the Internet. More computers could talk to one another not being on the same network. Still this version is very foreign to what we are accustom to currently.
In the 1990s more and more computers were coming online and this created more of a demand online commerce and knowledge. The Internet in the 1990s was what most of us grew up on and remember it being extremely slow.
The most used features on the Internet from day 1 have been email and weblogs. Email has been around since the 1960s and weblogs just about as long, but didn't become popular until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
It is interesting to think that in 50 short years we have gone from computers not talking to each other to the current World Wide Web that we have now. I can't imagine what we are going to have 50 years from now.
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