The Next Web
  • News
  • Conference
  • TNW NYC
  • Index
  • TQ
  • Deals
  • Answers
  • TNW X
  • News
  • Conference
  • New York
  • Index
  • TQ
  • Deals
  • Answers
  • TNW X
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Advertise
  • Team
  • About
  • Latest
  • Insights
  • Hard Fork
  • Distract
  • Full stack
  • Investing 2.0
  • Have a cookie

    TNW uses cookies to personalize content and ads to make our site easier for you to use. We do also share that information with third parties for advertising & analytics.

    Got it! or More info
Sections
  • Latest
  • Insights
  • Contributors
  • Full Stack
  • Investing 2.0
About TNW
  • About
  • Team
  • Advertise
  • Jobs
  • Contact
TNW Sites
  • News
  • Conference
  • TNW NYC
  • Index
  • TQ
  • Deals
  • Answers
  • Cyberspace Culture

What is the Internet?

by Leon Pals — in Shareables

What is the Internet?
  • 0
  • 51
    shares

The Internet has a pretty impressive history which is rather complicated to fully know of and understand yourself without having to try explain it to your friends or family members. This graph tries to help you explain it to a 19th century street urchin if you ever find yourself in 1835.

Read next: How to watch BBC iPlayer abroad

  • Share on Facebook (0)
  • Share on Twitter (51)

Most popular

  • 1

    CIA plans to replace spies with AI

    • Tristan Greene
  • 2

    MIT study shows the most successful entrepreneurs are in their forties

    • Matthew Hughes
  • 3

    Design thinking sucks, but it doesn't have to

    • Ailsa Sherrington
  • 4

    Flickr has been acquired by SmugMug - so where should you store your photos?

    • Abhimanyu Ghoshal
  • 5

    Uber to hide dropoff locations so sketchy drivers don't know where you live

    • Rachel Kaser

Never miss out

Stay tuned with our weekly recap of what’s hot & cool by our CEO Boris.

Thank you!

Join over 260,000 subscribers!

Who's Hiring
Add your company

Latest

  • 1

    This Hacker News thread is a masterclass in how to put down your damn smartphone

    • Bryan Clark
  • 2

    ProPublica designed a game to simulate the existential despair of the asylum process

    • Rachel Kaser
  • 3

    To hell with aging: Watch this YouTube video about a dragon

    • Tristan Greene
  • 4

    You can now download your Instagram data. Here's how

    • Napier Lopez
  • 5

    Scam Alert: Fake MetaMask App on Google Play is stealing users' ETH

    • Neer Varshney
  • Events
  • About
  • Team
  • Advertise
  • Jobs
  • Contact
The Next Web © 2006–2018 The Next Web B.V. Made with ♥ in Amsterdam. Powered by MaxCDN

Stay tuned

Treat yourself

Sit back and let the hottest tech news come to you by the magic of electronic mail.

Thank you!

Prefer to get the news as it happens? Follow us on social media.

  • Twitter

    1.76M followers

  • Facebook

    1M likes

Help us out

Who are you?

Got two minutes to spare? We'd love to know a bit more about our readers.

Start!

All data collected in the survey is anonymous.

The Next Web
↑ ↓ Navigate up/down
Enter Go to article
/ Search new term
Esc Close search