A Decade-Plus of a Web Gone Worldwide

Perhaps the greatest invention of the 20th century is the hardware and software infrastructure that makes up the data communications system known as the Internet. It’s led to revolutions in the way people and businesses communicate, advertise and sell. Although the technology underpinning the Internet had been in development and use for several decades — and although by some definitions the Internet itself went online in the 1960s — it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the Web began to infiltrate people’s daily lives.