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The internet as we now know it is generally considered to have started with ARPANET, a network developed under funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense which started operation in 1969. The term "internet" was first used in December 1974 when Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine, used the term internet as a shorthand for internetworking in RFC 675 (subsequent RFCs continued to use the term). In 1982, the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, which permitted worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks. TCP/IP network access expanded again in 1986 when the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNet) provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States for researchers. In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. Around Christmas of 1990, the first version of a browser - named WorldWideWeb (guess where that prefix www you see in so many URLs comes from...) and using HTTP 0.9 and HTML was put into operation by Tim Berners-Lee. At that point most of what we now think of as the internet was fully established although it took until the mid-1990's to become ubiquitous.

Depending on where you want to draw the line, "Americans" were first allowed to use the "internet" in 1969, 1974, 1982, 1989, 1990, or ~1994.

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