Remember the internet has been around since the 60's. It's the WWW or web that has only been around since 1995. There is a really good book written by the creator of the web called "weaving the web" from memory, by Tim Berners-Lee. Very good read. I read it around 2000 when the web had only been active for around 4 years. Hard to believe that we were the first country to have a summer Olympics with a fully funtional web!