Last Sunday, October 29, 2019, the Internet turned 50 years old.
We’ve grown from the 1970 topology:
to this in 2019:
Okay, here’s a real representation of the Internet.
What’s next? The Interplanetary Internet of course.
My take: It’s important to note that the World Wide Web is not the same thing as the Internet. (The Web wouldn’t be invented for another 20 years!) The Internet is the all-important backbone for the numerous networking protocols that traverse it, http(s) being only one.