Businesses of all types joined the rush to this communications revolution and the media hyped it endlessly. At first very crude gray background sites were hard to find and the equipment primitive. Only a few favored curious techies ventured into this virtual wilderness. In a very short time, the web grew to over 500,000 web sites and domain names were fought over. Small businesses and entrepreneurs had found an economical vehicle to display their goods and services to millions of prospective buyers.
Major companies spend millions creating elaborate web advertising.
Intranet began to dominate internal company networking of computers. Ways were found to link companies together to do business. Email became the choice of millions and soon more message were sent on the Internet than through the US Post Office. Small companies who had never before thought of attracting foreign customers, were suddenly very international and even put up web sites with several languages offered. The Internet was making it's own world.