Let us try to give a brief overview of the evolution of the World Wide Web, which was born in 1989.
Its originator is Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN in Geneva, who introduced the interconnected digital pages to the network, claiming that this invention would facilitate the exchange of information in science.
Thus, the Internet was born for cultural reasons and immediately positioned itself at a high scientific level, in the community of researchers. However, in the course of its evolution, starting as a medium with libertarian and let’s say “public” characteristics, the Internet becomes a huge business and during the 1990s it fuels a strong financial speculation called the “New Economy” that results in the entry of large private entities into the network.
Despite the bursting of the financial bubble in the late 1990s, a number of Global Internet Companies (GICs) established themselves globally, gradually taking on enormous economic value and creating platforms that are still dominant today.
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