Why the World-Wide Web?
Growth Rate
- Internet doubled in size from mid-1995 (6.6 million hosts) to mid-1996 (12.8 million hosts)
Relevance of the technology
- easy to use, it does not require its users to understand the differences between protocols in common use on the Internet (e.g., http, ftp, gopher, WAIS, NNTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP)