None (or In the Beginning)
29 Jan, 2009
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In the beginning the Internet was primarily used by researchers in universities. Enamored by this new form of communication, the university culture took to emails like ducks to water. The low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills made collaborative work much easier.
The term "Internet" originated in December 1974 in an RFC document describing a single global TCP/IP network.
In 1985, the United States' National Science Foundation commissioned the construction of a university 56 kilobit/second network backbone using computers. In 1988, the network was opened to commercial interests.
The slow computers of the age necessitated few if any graphics were used in web pages. The main focus was to distribute information without thought to how the websites looked.
22 Jul, 2010
Julian
Are you sure you're not confusing something? The Web was not invented until 1990. Thus, web pages where not possible at all before that.