When did you first start hearing about the Internet? The obvious answer is usually the 1990s. Images of America Online, Prodigy and other providers spring to mind as does the sounds of a modem dialing up and the now iconic “You’ve Got Mail”. Although that might be the public’s first experience with the Internet, the actual history started far earlier. Rather than thinking of the Internet as the global marketplace of ideas that it is now, the early stages were merely away for circuits or motherboards to communicate. Computer hardware is an assembly of circuit boards, and the idea of putting the power of all these circuits together would revolutionize the manner in which human knowledge could be shared and accessed. 
During the Cold War, defense contractors needed a way for computers to interconnect. From computers, interconnecting came the Internet. From these origins a British engineer and computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee created hypertext transfer protocal or http. Berners-Lee is credited as the father of the Internet because he implemented the first communication between an HTTP client and a server via the Internet. As a way communicate between the computers a relevant language was needed, so Berners-Lee and a student at the European Organization for Nuclear Research developed hypertext mark language- html. Not a true programming language because it is based on tags, html was developed to as away for researchers across the world to share information amongst researchers.
The birth of the World Wide Web was not complete until Berners-Lee combined his coding language with Transmission Control Protocol, which built a network between computers, and the domain name system..
The first website was built by Berners-Lee, and put on line on August 6, 1991. By 1992, the Internet, which had previously only been open to government and corporate researchers was made public. The simple text based sites and explain of information would soon become the new means to entertain, inform and interact. From humble origins, the Internet has grown affect nearly every aspect of human activity.
