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Web1 was designed to serve as a “hyperlinked information system “ A vast collection of information comes into an online display of computers across the globe that users can browse through by clicking on hyperlinked images and text.

Thirty years on, three billion people now can access a more extensive and faster Internet powered by massive data centers. The method we browse is much the same.

In the beginning, the Internet was not a mainstream technology used mainly by academics. The widespread acceptance of the Internet began just five years later and was facilitated by browsers like Mosaic and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Before that, there were just some content creators on Web 1.0 with a vast majority of content users.