Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two .

As a refresher, here’s the story so far:

The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. It later evolved into the Internet, connecting multiple global networks together using a common TCP/IP protocol. By the late 1980s, a small group of academics and a few curious consumers connected to each other on the Internet, which was still mostly text-based.

In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web , an Internet-based hypertext system designed for graphical interfaces. At first, it ran only on the expensive

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