February 28, 2014 at 10:14 AM
February 28, 2014 at 12:25 PM
...The technology's birthday (click here) is reckoned as March 12, 1989, the date that Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing a system for managing information on the internet that would become the framework for the Web. He released the code for the system for free on Christmas Day the following year.
The Web made it easy for ordinary users to pull documents from the internet and to use it to interact with others.
In 1995, only 14 percent of American adults were using the internet, according to previous Pew research. That exploded to 87 percent in Pew's latest survey. The trend is similar for broadband use, which is nearly universal today....
