Lay down thy packet, now. O Friend, and sleep. Institutions, such as the National Library of Medicine go online. High Performance Computing Act , which is authored by Al Gore is signed into law. Gopher is introduced by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the University of Minnesota .
Gopher allows users to search the network, but in just pure text.
R esource L ocators, for web addresses. Veronica , a gopherspace search tool, is released by the University of Nevada at Reno , System Computing Department. Each tool is just in plain text on computer monitors. World Bank goes on-line. Mosaic, provides a graphical interface to search the Internet, thus making the Internet more visually appealing.