The United States of America invented the Internet in 1969. At least, that is when the ARPAnet was built by the Bolt Beranek Company. ARPAnet was a sort of precursor to the Internet, and it acquired several nodes throughout the year: one was deployed at UCLA, another at Stanford, another at UC Santa Barbara and a final one at University of Utah. These interconnected universities gradually acquired the ability to communicate with others. People contributed through the process of RFCs (Requests for Comment), which essentially make up the very backbone of the Internet.

The Internet as we know it today, however, had its concepts formed by one man in particular. An Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee developed the ideas of the World Wide Web, HTTP protocol, a Web browser, HTML, and search engines as a vision of what the Internet could be. His ideas came about in 1989 when he worked for European Nuclear Research Center (CERN), located in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee put his ideas into practice by constructing the very first web site: http://www.cern.ch.

Although many scientists speculated on what the Internet was to become, very few saw it as the center of the worldwide economy as it is today.