Question: When did Iran receive access to the internet?
About the article "Iran", section "Humanities".

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In the first decade of the 21st century, Iran experienced a great surge in Internet usage, and, with 20 million people on the Internet, currently has the second highest percentage of its population online in the Middle East, after Israel.
When initially introduced, the Internet services provided by the government within Iran were comparatively open.
Many users saw the Internet as an easy way to get around Iran's strict press laws.
In recent years, Internet service providers have been told to block access to pornographic and anti-religion websites.
The ban has also targeted such popular social networking sites as Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites. 
A survey on UK school children's access to the Internet commissioned by security company Westcoastcloud in 2011 found:  nearly a third of UK children have a mobile phone,  15% use smartphones regularly,  10% have an iPhone,  5% have an iPad,  16% have access to a laptop computer,  8% have a social networking account,  25% have an e-mail address,  most use their smartphone primarily to make phone calls, but 20% send and receive text messages, 10% go online, and 5% draft and send email,  50% have no parental controls installed on their internet connected devices,  5% use their phone or laptop when their parents are out,  50% of parents said they have concerns about the lack of controls installed on their children's Internet devices,  68% of parents who bought their children smartphones said they did so to keep better track of their children,  17% of surveyed parents bought phones after being pestered by their kids, and  most pay around £10 per month on children's phone bills, although 20% pay £20 or more.
The survey gathered answers from 2,000 British parents of children ages 10 and under.
The survey was used as a marketing tool to coincide with the release of Westcoastcloud's new iPad Internet content filtering product. 
In mid-February 2011 the Muammar Gaddafi government severed Internet access and international phone calls in eastern Libya in response to violent protests.
News was able to be leaked through rare Internet satellite connections which made possible intermittent Skype calls, MSN chats, and mobile video uploads.
It was Friday night, 18 February 2011, that Libya experienced a complete Internet shutdown.
The country totally vanished from the Internet for 6.8 hours until service was partially restored Saturday morning at around 8:01 a.m..
It was cut off once again at around 10:00 p.m. the next day, Saturday, 19 February 2011 (local time) for another 8.3 hours.
Once the country regained Internet access, traffic to popular websites such as Google increased steadily until 3 March 2011, when the Internet was cut once again.
It is speculated that the Internet shutdown in March was aimed at preventing anti-government protests planned for the days to follow.
Arbor Networks, based in the U.S., reported that all Internet traffic coming in and out of Libya had ceased starting at about noon on Thursday, 3 March.
This second Internet shutdown was described as “more technologically advanced” than the previous.
Instead of simply shutting down Internet servers, the online routes remained open but traffic was “blackholed” before it could enter Libyan cyberspace.
At first, the reason for the shutdown was unclear.
Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer of the Internet intelligence firm Renesys, stated “The outages have lasted hours, and then service has resumed.
All of that is consistent with alternative explanations, such as power problems or some other kind of single-operator engineering issue”.
Some have argued that the impact of an Internet shutdown in Libya was less severe than in countries like Egypt because relatively few Libyans have Internet access.
According to the research group OpenNet Initiative, at the time only about 6 percent of Libyans had home or public Internet access.
In Egypt the number was 24 percent, in the United States 81.
However, as noted by Jillian York, coordinator of the OpenNet Initiative, the few Libyans that did have Internet access were educated and politically aware and therefore more influential.
Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, noted that the Internet shutdown would make it more difficult for Libyans, especially those in the capital Tripoli, to receive updates about the state of the protests around the country.
Though the Libyan government owns the nation’s two mobile telephone providers, cell phone service appeared to be largely unaffected.
Some did, however, describe the service as “spotty”. 
In Iran, the possession of any type of pornography is illegal and is charged with a fine.
Iranian made pornography is very limited but is existent.
Due to the widespread Internet access and introduction of worldwide satellites, porn is easily accessible in Iran.