Strides science making recently

Many new technological innovations have been made during the last few decades. But though those inventions are of recent origin, they have already become essential elements of our day to day life. Now think of a day without the Internet, the quickest source of reference and information. It has become so ubiquitous that one can have the service even in the remotest areas of the world. But how did the Internet service spread so fast across the globe? For earlier, Internet was kind of computer-based information sharing service available only among special kind of users. It is worthwhile to mention here that the US military was the first to develop this service for its own use. Only later it allowed the technology to be commercially used by the public. Even then, the internet did not get instant access to the public life. Strangely enough, before 1989 there was no Internet service like it is now today. But within hardly a decade and a half, it has invaded every house and office across the world. How did it all begin? Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian writes how it all started in a nondescript office of the European Organization for Nuclear Research or Organisation Europ