The Counsel argued that some of the e-mail could be classified as solicitation, and was thereby protected activity under NLRA, Section 7. Put simply, the Internet is a global information network connecting millions of computers. In 1969, the Department of Defense partnered with the Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a computer network that could withstand a nuclear attack. The World Wide Web, created in1992, is an information system that uses the Internet to access computers containing millions of documents. These documents, known as Web pages, are written in a computer language known as HTML, or hypertext markup language.
Web pages are unique in that they can connect to one another through a link provided on the page.
By clicking on a link, a Web user can be taken automatically to another Web page halfway around the world. This article appeared in the Sepetember 1999 issue of LRA's Economic Notes.