Two scientists at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, thought that the existing tools on the Internet were too clumsy to easily share their scientific documents with each other. So they created "electronic documents" using HTML, the Hyper Text Markup Language, that could be shared easily with colleagues on the Internet. Later, as a university project, Marc Andreasen created an application called MOSAIC, the first browser, to open and display HTML documents. He later created a commercial version of a browser called Netscape Navigator.

There are approximately 50 million Internet users worldwide and it only took 4 years to reach that number. By contrast, it took radio 38 years and television 13 years to attract the same number.

In a recent study, 55% of computer users send e-mail more often than they make long-distance phone calls.

73% of the 15,718 libraries in the US offer public access to the Internet.

Melitta Benz invented the drip coffeemaker in 1908.