 Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities emerged in several American cities by late 1989 and 1990.The NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.Research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-90 resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network.