Jumping between hyperlinks and hypertext is commonly referred to as Surfing the web. The WWW was created in a high-energy physics lab in Switzerland and was text based in form. The web was given a face-lift in 1993 in an attempt to gain mass acceptance. This number has doubled every year since 1994. By the year 2001 that number is speculated to increase to a trillion dollars.
Unique sites have the potential to attract limitless users.
For example, the Pathfinder mission to Mars and the subsequent pictures broadcast from the landing site attracted over 100 million hits to NASA's web site from amateur astronomers all over the world. In the U.S. alone there are over 40 million Internet users. The booming growth of the young industry has guaranteed it's place in the world market and has forced corporate awareness of cyber trade as an essential tool of business world- wide. The explosion of the WWW and the Internet has initiated a new type of consumerism. Commerce has been a powerful driving force behind Internet growth in recent years.