this was published two years before apple began marketing its desktop laser printer in 1984 three years before America on line was founded in 1985 seven years before Tim Berners -Lee wrote the first information retrieval software in 1989 to begin accessing arpanet's resources and full decade before students and software developers at the University of lllinois developedical a user-friendly" graphical user interface browser in 1992 which allowed the world wide web to burst upon the scene a year later with a few hundred web sites