Interesting tidbits of Internet Information
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.
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