“While few would argue that the Internet is one of the most influential and revolutionary technologies in modern history, at least one aspect of the Internet’s biography is still open for debate - its birthday.

Conceived as a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and called ARPANET, the modern Internet evolved through slow refinement and incorporation of new technologies, which makes pinning down an exact date of birth more an exercise in definition than anything else.

To those who claim that the Internet and the World Wide Web are synonymous, then the Internet/Web was born on April 30, 1993, when the scientists at CERN declared that Web technology, including the Mosaic browser, would be freely available to everyone, with no fees being payable to CERN.”

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