By 1984, the Internet had grown to include 1,000 host computers. The National Science Foundation was one of the first outside institutions hoping to connect to this body of information. Other government, non-profit, and educational institutions followed. Initial attempts to catalogue this rapidly expanding system of networks were simple. Among the first was Archie, a list of FTP information created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal. However, the greatest innovation on the Internet was still to come, brewing in the MIT laboratory in Cambridge.

The World-Wide Web, or the Web, is often confused with the Internet. In fact, it is just one part of the Internet. In fact, it is just one part of the Internet, along with email, video conferencing, and streaming audio channels. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee now a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced a new system of communication on the Internet which used hyperlinks and a user-friendly graphical interface, his slice of the Internet pie camera to be known as the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee says, the Web is an abstract (imaginary) space of information. On the Net, you find computers on the Web; you find documents, sounds, videos, information. On the Net, the connections are cables between computers; on the Web, connections are hypertext links. The Web exists because of programs which communicate between computers on the Net. The Web could not be without the Net. The Web made the Net useful because people are really interested in information (not to mention knowledge and wisdom!) and don't really want to know about computers and cables.