What day/year was the internet first online, available to the public?

Question

What day/year was the internet first online, available to the public?

Answer 1

"On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project."

-Wikipedia

Answer 2

Check out this history of the Internet from the Internet Society:

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/bri...

The internet was spawned from ARPNET though and that was connected and running in the 70's.

-Chad.

Answer 3

n the 1960s, computer researchers, Levi C. Finch and Robert W. Taylor pioneered calls for a joined-up global network to address interoperability problems,the government and some universities started Inter-networking at this point. This led to the development of several packet switched networking solutions in the late 1960s and 1970s, including ARPANET, and X.25  By 1973, they had soon worked out a fundamental reformulation, where the differences between network protocols were hidden by using a common internetwork protocol, and instead of the network being responsible for reliability, as in the ARPANET, the hosts became responsible. This made a True Internet finally possible. he term "Internet" was adopted in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675[13]: Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974)

During the late 1980s, the first Internet service provider (ISP) companies were formed. Companies like PSINet, UUNET, Netcom, and Portal Software were formed to provide service to the regional research networks and provide alternate network access, UUCP-based email and Usenet News to the public. The first dial-up on the West Coast, was Best Internet[22] - now Verio, opened in 1986. The first dialup ISP in the East was world.std.com, opened in 1989.

Another important event held on January 11, 1994, was The Superhighway Summit at UCLA's Royce Hall. This was the "first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information Superhighway and its implications."  In other words The Internet as we now know it has been a Series of evolutions and to give you an exact date as an answer to this question is next to if not impossible. CompuServe, (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS), was the first major commercial online service in the United States,

Answer 4

August 19, 2008