content: No mention of the Internet before the World Wide Web. I never used it but I know it existed.  I used it to a limited extent. The interface was all text based and all file transfer was done by converting files to binaries, and they had to be pretty small because the data rate was 300 baud, about as quickly as you can read text on a screen. Yet despite these limitations, it was hugely important.  In articles like these, people need to distinguish between the Internet and the World Wide Web, which began life with the introduction of the first Web browser, Mosaic, in 1993.