The World Wide Web (WWW)
By 1991, personal computers (PCs), once thought to be an impractical notion, were making their way into businesses, universities, medical facilities, and just beginning to appear in homes. The IBM PC/AT (and its clones from Compaq, Dell, HP, and Gateway, among others), the Apple IIGS and the Macintosh II were the PCs of choice. Windows 3.0 competed with DOS and Mac OS 6L. Software development was producing applications like word processing, electronic spreadsheets, basic database systems, and much more, including games. The PC had arrived and was here to stay! What more could you want?
Tim Berners-Lee
From his frustration with trying to find information that was often fragmented and stored on separate computers, Tim ...
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