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CAFÉ CULTURE
In the early 1990s, nobody had access to the Internet at
home. In 1991, a number of cafés in San Francisco had
computers that were connected to other cafés. The first
café with full Internet access arrived in early 1994
at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

THE FIRST WEB PAGE

The first ever web page, above, went live on August 6, 1991. It was
made by Tim Berners-Lee. He shared information about the World
Wide Web project and outlined how to create web pages. COMMUNICATION

WORDS AND PICTURES
Early websites only had words, no pictures. In
1993, the National Center for Supercomputing
Users at Vietnam’s first cyber café, 1996 Applications at the University of Illinois released
Mosaic—an interface, or browser, that supported
Web browsers enable graphics. Websites now looked much
users to view pages
on the Internet. more appealing and were easier
to read. Mosaic helped to
popularize the
WOW! World Wide Web.

There are more
devices connected to
the Internet than there
are human beings
living on Earth.

GLOBAL
NETWORKS
Online communities have
existed since before the World Wide ▲ BUILDING
WEBSITES
Web. However, they became more The arrival of website-creation
popular with the arrival of sites such as platforms such as WordPress,
Classmates (1995), Six Degrees (1997), launched in 2003, has made
LinkedIn and MySpace (both 2003), it easy for users to create
their own websites.
Facebook (2004), and Twitter (2006).

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