The last decade of the twentieth century had one very

significant development to offer, that was the mass

acceptance of, not so recent in origin, medium of

information and communications technology,

particularly, the Internet.

'The Net', 'The Web' etc are some of the phrases that

caught the imagination of the masses, industry people

& academics, alike. Whatever be the name used to refer

to it, the fact remains that today we have come to a

situation when URLs and E-Mail addresses are almost

an integral part of any resume, visit card and corporate

brochure, a far cry from the pre-1992 when Internet

was confined to a small group of people and

institutions.