[Its_Padar]

> (2018)

I'm pretty sure the article is more recent than that... After some searching I found the Conversation's RSS feed for technology[1] which says it was 2025 after searching the page for "internet" and looking through the results

   <id>tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/45404</id>
    <published>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</published>
    <updated>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-created-the-first-password-on-the-internet-45404"/>
    <title>How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet</title>

[1] https://theconversation.com/uk/technology/articles.atom

[pxeger1]

The preface says it was originally written "a few years before [the author] died", but never published (until now - having been (re)edited), so the (2018) makes sense.

[lproven]

> I'm pretty sure the article is more recent than that

You seem to be confusing the date it was written with the date it was published.

I believe there are multiple works where that interval is over 50 years. I would not be surprised if a gap of a century has been surpassed.