• 1960 - PROJECT XANADU created by Ted Nelson (author of Computer Lib/Dream Machines [1974])
• late 1980s - research at CERN
• British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee creats World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents (HTML) into an information system, accessible from any node on the public internet network (using NeXT Cube servers).
• 90s - Gopher/FTP/BitTorrent/IRC protocols created to easily transfer files/chat on the internet