who is credited with the invention of the internet
History of the Internet Precursors to the web browser emerged in the form of hyperlinked applications during the mid and late 1980s (the bare concept of hyperlinking had by then existed for some decades). Following these, Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 and developing in 1990 both the first web server, and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and later renamed Nexus.[76] Many others were soon developed, with Marc Andreessen's 1993 Mosaic (later Netscape),[77] being particularly easy to use and install, and often credited with sparking the internet boom of the 1990s.[78] Today, the major web browsers are Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.[79]