Italy celebrates Internet Day on April 30

Italy celebrates 30 years of Internet connection

FLORENCE, ITALY – The Italian govenment announces Italy will mark the 30th anniversary of its connection to the Internet on April 30, 2016.

Regions and schools will hold events, and the government will seek bids from ultra wideband providers in what will be its first such request for bids aimed at bringing high-speed Internet throughout Italy by 2020.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected mainframe, personal, and wireless computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link billions of devices worldwide. The first attempts in Italy to use this technology goes back to the April 1986.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.


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