formation presenters place graphics, sound, and video within a page, and users with a direct, high-speed connection can download them quickly enough to feel the full effects of the interactive relationship with the computer.Hopefully, you now have a better understanding of how the World Wide Web was started, what it is, how rapidly it developed, and how the need of a certain group (the High Energy Physics community) developed an advanced technology of an existing one so it may benefit. Quite often, a technological leap forward takes place because of the availability of complimentary technological developments that allow the resolution of fundamental problems. 9 We can also see how Corporate Research Laboratories (the first by GE, 1901) play an important role to organized technological developments.We know that technological advancements have been the greatest single source of economic growth. It creates entirely new products which in turn supports the improving quality of our material lives. At the same time we may find a resistance to change by people who are faced with new technologies. Weather it be in some form of a guild, simply a lack of understanding, or to preserve the old fashion way of life.The Internet has emerged as a huge, rich source of information accessible only via a series of not-so-friendly interfaces. Telnet, FTP, Archie, WAIS, and even E-Mail, (to name a few) are powerful, but complex systems. The rapid growth of the Internet’s user base has resulted in an increasing number of people who have neither the patience nor the desire to learn the intricacies of these interfaces.Even those who know them, however, are aware that easier systems can very quickly result in greater productivity. Enter the World Wide Web, the conceptualized system that would allow users to access information across computer networks in a standardized, attractive, accessible, and user friendly format.1992 was a year that we first saw the de...
