Tim Berners-Lee , a British scientist, was frustrated that information was trapped in individual computers. He imagined a "web" of information where anything could be linked to anything else. He invented , HTTP , and the first web browser, creating the World Wide Web .
The very first message ever sent on the precursor to the Internet was just "LO"—a fittingly humble start for a system that would eventually change the world. Connecting the Islands
For decades, the Internet remained a tool for scientists and the military. It was powerful but hard to use—mostly green text on black screens. Everything changed in 1989 at in Switzerland.
By the early 1970s, more "islands" were joining the network, but they were still using different languages. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn became the "architects" who fixed this. They developed (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol), a universal set of rules that allowed different networks to communicate seamlessly. This "network of networks" is what we now officially call the Internet . The Web is Born