Lots of misinformation lately about "who invented the internet" no it wasn't CERN Recently there has been several articles congratulating CERN for inventing the world wide web.  While it's true that CERN established the first standards of graphical user interface (browser) they didn't invent it. Or the internet.   The origins came from several developers in the U.S. Graphical user interfaces were developed for BBS's ; ever heard of CompUServe? AOL?   Yes markup language exsisted long before CERN had it's initial projects. The "internet" was developed in the 1960's notably the first interagency standards (APRPA net) was finalized in 1969!  The public version of  DARPA net The earliest computer to computer "network" that I am aware of exsisted in 1947!