1990's Science and Technology | Internet

Information Superhighway.

The revolutionary technology of the Internet and the World Wide Web created a whole new digital culture in America during the 1990s. The idea of an "Information Superhighway" that could link anyone in the world through nearly instantaneous data transmission became a reality, and terms such as "cyberspace" and "the Net" became part of everyday speech. The introduction of the Internet into mainstream American society changed the ways that business and commerce was conducted, information exchanged, and social interaction carried out.

ARPANET.

Joseph C. R. Licklider, a psychologist at M.I.T., first envisioned the idea of an Internet, or an inter-connected computer network. In August of 1962 he wrote a series of memos discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which anyone with a computer terminal could quickly access data and...