Internet service providers (ISP's) emerged in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.
By 1995, the Internet was fully commercialized in the U.S., when the NSFNet was decommissioned, removing the last restrictions on use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.
Optical illusion is what that refers to persistence of vision with a principle that multiple images blend into a single image in human mind and what is showed in cinema.
Hence, Persistence of vision is the principle behind cinema.