Before the rise of the World Wide Web, if you wanted to look up the address and telephone number of a business, you had to order a phone book for the city where the business was located and then wait for it to be delivered. This was a slow and costly way to obtain information. Thanks to the ubiquitous Web browser, which is installed on nearly every desktop computer and laptop, looking up this information can now be done in just a minute or two using your favorite search engine. Writer Bio
