Internet turns 30: A timeline of the World Wide Web

PARIS: On the 30th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web, here is a look back at the development of the Internet, now used by billions of people.

In October 1969, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) attempt to exchange data between two computers.

Their first objective is to type out three letters -“LOG” – send them in binary form to the second computer, which should then add the next two letters, to form “LOGIN”.

On their second attempt they succeed and the ARPANET project is born, financed by the US Defense Department.