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In the early 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. According to www.internetworldstats.com, as of March 31, 2009, there were more than 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide comprising nearly a quarter (25%) of the world's population--more than triple the number reported in 2000. Websites are crucial to information delivery--it takes a click of a mouse to research medications, statistics, companies, places of interest, and much more.
