Invention of Web protocols by Tim Berners Lee, late 1980s.

Open public operation of web on Internet, 1993.

Explosive growth and penetration - faster than any other technology in history.

All information delivered in digital form.

Images (and video), color, sounds, text can be downloaded, saved and printed.

Hypertext links - text / image "buttons" connect with all other pages, sites.

Everyone can see/have all historic documents, images without going from one place to another.