Who invented surfing the Internet?
First Use in a Published Article (1992) To the best of my knowledge I am credited with the first published use of the phrase. This is due to an article titled “Surfing the Internet,” published in the June 1992 monthly magazine, Wilson Library Bulletin. (Wilson Library Bulletin, v66 n10 p38-42, Jun 1992 or ERIC document EJ447456) I think of this as version 1.0. WLB has now ceased publication, but it was a popular monthly professional magazine for librarians, and was published by the H.W. Wilson company. Read about about how I came up with the title. Subsequently I updated and expanded the article and released the electronic file for FTP download December 3, 1992 as version 2.0 (closely followed by 2.01 and Dec. 15’s version 2.0.2). It quickly spread around the world after that. We put up a version 2.0.3 update in May, 1993. Other Early Use in Printed Publications (1993-1995) Because I am a librarian, I did extensive searches for early uses of the terms “Internet” and “surfing (or surf o
