INVENTIONS: The 1990s, Dawn of the Information Age

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that we all take for granted today. It may seem like it has been around forever, but it was available to the public in the mid-1990's. It is estimated that a quarter of the Earth's population had begun using the Internet by 2009. 


So what would happen if the Internet wasn't available? Instead of being able to research for a book report with just a click of a mouse, we would need to go to the library, take out an encyclopedia, and flip the pages until we'd found what we needed. Those fancy iPhones and Blackberrys that we can't seem to live without, the addicting Facebook.com, and of course emails would all be gone. Everything would take so much longer to do, yet we all use the world wide web without thinking twice.


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