They couldn't guess that their creation would become the world's first truly global communications network. The Internet has become an indispensable part of the way we communicate. By the mid 1990s, when the World Wide Web came along, the Internet became even more ubiquitous. Now we not only send text messages back and forth across the planet, we send movie clips. We shop on-line.
Businesses use the Web as a place for workers to collaborate.
Schools offer courses over the web. And more and more people go on-line every year. It is truly a communications revolution. Critics debate whether Internet technology brings people together, or whether it isolates them from each other.