Online before the Internet

July 9, 2003

Most people think the word "online" means the Internet. But there was an "online" before the Internet, and some early pioneers have published a fascinating account of creating the world that was the principal ancestor of the web. The web is now so ubiquitous it's hard to imagine life without it. But the tools and services we take for granted today are mere infants compared to some of the earliest online information systems. Take Google -- a mere toddler, barely five years old. Or the web, scarcely more than a decade old. Even the Internet itself, in the form we know it today, dates from just the mid-1980s.

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