Congratulations! Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary

It has become indispensable in the world — the internet — where you speak with people, buy your food and control your banking is today 25 years old. On 6 August 1991, the British scientist Tim Berners -Lee’s idea (which already began in 1989) worked out and published.

He developed the first website and the first browser in the world and he is the grandfather of terms such as URLs, HTML, and HTTP. Today there are nearly 1.1 million sites and 3.4 billion people use the Internet daily.

The Internet has the way in which the world communicates, creates and exchange thoughts. More than two-fifths of the world population are now connected to each other; geographical and social divisions are bridged. People send together hundreds of millions of messages, share twenty million photos and exchange at least a value of $ 15 million in goods and services every minute.

Internet success can be traced back to its original design as a decentralized system with an open architecture which everyone can help build. More than 45.9 million people — 87.9% of UK adults — used the internet in the previous three months, according to the latest Government statistics published in May.

Sir Berners initially developed the web to meet the demand for information-sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world, however, there were an estimated 630 million websites online later.