Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web as we know it today. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener When you think of the "World Wide Web," you likely imagine a sprawling network of computers circling the globe, blasting information to each other 24 hours a day.

And you'd be right, though this wasn't always the case.

When he first invented it in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee kept the entire World Wide Web (which was still rather small for a time) on his NeXTcube from NeXT, the company started by Steve Jobs after being ousted from Apple.

This is of course but one example from the Internet's unusual history. We have nine more for you.