Born digital

Libero has marked the history of the Italian web since its origins. Created in 1994 with the name Italia On Line, it was born as a support site aiming to help users surf the net and set up email accounts. In 1996, thanks to the collaboration with Olivetti and the University of Pisa, the portal developed  Arianna, the first Italian-language search engine. 1998 was the year of Digiland, the first Italian community of social networks, where users had the opportunity to publish articles, create blogs and chat with others.
The brand Libero as it is known today was born in 1999 and was an immediate success, driven by the free webmail it offered its users: a winning move that has made Libero number one in Italy for its number of active email inboxes.