Convergance

During the start of the World Wide Web (WWW), many people began to see and use the web as it allowed people to do many things, however, much more limited to what we can do with the web today. As the web was growing, many people saw ways to earn more money or revenue for their companies, whether big or small, or for their own profits. This occurred around 1995, where people began to wake up to the web and really began to adopt it.

The web offered services that improved lives, and made things easier to do. For example, disintermediation plays well into effect here as it removed the "middle" man in what you were trying to accomplish. For authors, this is a good thing as through the web, Amazon erupted which eventually allowed people to self-publish their own books and doing so, removed editors and publishers from keeping their books from being published or going through numerous revisions. As a benefit, there are also it's problems such as not having an editor and publisher means that the quality of work may not be as well done. However, many self-published authors have become well known and some even surpassed the number of books sold against a famous author who went the traditional route.

During this time, a lot of companies rose from the web. As many fell, there were also many that we know today that have survived and thrived. Today, the web is a wonderful resource used by many and there is no telling what will happen to it in the near future.