The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, consisting of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, US defence organization, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers and only the US army could use in the following 15 years. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSF network, also known the Inter-network or ”Internet”. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. The World Wide Web, (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer network that makes the information from millions of websites (access) to computer users. At the moment, about
80 % of web traffic is English, but by 2020, Chinese could take the lead. Obviously, it was Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”, allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. With the web and the Internet (grow), the number of Internet users rose rapidly from 600,000 to 40 million within 5 years.
So far, the Internet (create) thousands of millionaires all over the world, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.