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In
August 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist at
the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) wrote the
software for what would become the World Wide Web.
The introduction of the Web helped popularize the Internet by
making it far easier to use. Up until then, computer users
needed to master complex series of programming commands in order
to use the Internet. The programming language that the Web used,
called HTML, made it easier to link information from computers
throughout the world.
The arrival of “browsers” (software programs used to access and
display pages and files on the web) in 1993 further simplified
use of the Web and the Internet, helping to bring a staggering
growth in the number Internet users.
According to “Internet World Stats,” there are now more than 230
million Internet users in North America alone and more than 1
billion users worldwide. |
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