American Decades
The Internet
Dawn of the Internet Age.
In October 1969 two teams of computer scientists, one at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the other at the Bell laboratories in Menlo Park, California, linked computers over telephone lines to operate as a single system. The U.S. military had sponsored the research, seeking to establish a national communications network that would continue to operate even if part of the system were disabled or destroyed in a nuclear attack. Such was the genesis of the "Internet Age." During the 1990s the Internet became a force that transformed every aspect of life. Anyone with a computer, telephone, and modem literally had at their fingertips a staggering quantity and variety of information. As the decade drew to a close, the possibilities of the new technology seemed endless. Certainly the initial impact of the Internet has been profound, especially for business. Upstart on-line companies humbled...
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1990's Business and the Economy
