E-mail is the first application. Mid 1970s Call waiting is introduced. Bill Gates founds Microsoft. 1980 Broadband is introduced. 1982 Universities and research labs begin to use the Internet.
Computers begin to enter the office.
Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Congress passes the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, ushering in the era of competition for the U.S. telecom market. The FCC supports the opening of broadband access. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rules that Microsoft harmed consumers with monopolistic practices.