Intel Corp. announces the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, putting on a single chip most of the circuits needed for a personal computer. Datapoint introduces ARC system, the first local area network. Hayes introduces the first PC modem. The Source and Compuserv Information Services go online. It becomes the Internet backbone.
Internet is to be privately managed under government contract.
Y2K comes and goes and life goes on. The Internet Yellow Pages, The Whole Internet Catalog, etc. Web documents may contain text, graphics, audio, video, etc.