From the document, we learn:
- The Internet began in the 1970s as interconnected networks known as ARPANET, and the term "Internet" was first used in 1974 to describe these interconnected networks.
- The World Wide Web was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee as a system of hyperlinked documents accessed via the Internet using URLs and HTTP.
- Popular early applications included email, bulletin boards, Usenet, and Mosaic, the first graphical web browser. The 1990s saw a boom in websites, browsers, e-commerce, blogging, and social media like Friendster, MySpace and Facebook.