What year did Internet become popular?

Answer 1

I think you should reword your question. You, and many others, confuse the World Wide Web and the "Internet" as the same thing and that is not the case.

The Internet was actually very popular in the 70's and 80's, but it was accessed through nodes called bulletin board services. This is actually how and when AOL and Compuserve started out. They were the two major comercial bulletin boards, but there were many, many, many small boards out there were you could use your modem, call the login number, logon and upload and download pictures, text files, games, leave messages on forums, email and even play online games with many other players.

Now the World Wide Web, basically a Graphical Interface placed ontop of the "Internet" comes out and everyone notices how easy and fun getting connected is.

So the World Wide Web became popular around 1990 when it was created by the British Tim Berners-Lee and the Belgian Robert Cailliau working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.

Answer 2

I'd say around 1994, which is the year that AOL became big. AOL was designed for people who didn't understand computers or networking. Before that, internet access was primarily limited to people in government, the military and academia. You could get access through a local ISP or a larger one like CompuServe, but these services were all for people who understood computers. My husband and I, for example, has access at school through the VAX and IBM mainframe, but there was nothing for PCs. We had an an Amiga at home and used it to run our own uucp node, and got connectivity through a local electronics company that also offered internet access.

AOL was aimed at the masses, which led to a huge culture clash when they dumped hordes of clueless users on the internet. It also led to the beginning of things like spam and massive advertising.

Answer 3

In 1980's

Answer 4

1986

Answer 5

in the late 90's/2000's.