Have you heard all the buzz of the internet turning 40 just a moment ago? Seems a bit older than you think doesn’t it? Well technically they are right. And so are you.

On the 2nd of September in 1969 somewhere in a lab at the University of California there was an exchange of data over a cable. Then on the 29th of October 1969, UC exchanged data off site with Stanford University. Only part of the data was exchanged as the system promptlly crashed.

Several other US universities joined in and the first nodes in ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the computer network were formed - which in turn gave birth to the internet.

But for the likes of you and I… the internet as we know it; the world wide web (www) was released and announced on August 6, 1991 when Tim Berners-Lee announced the phenonemon publicly for the first time.

So that’s more like 18 years old, rather than 40! See not that old after all. If you’d like to read more I recommend this article in The Guardian.