There are small desktop PCs that are intended to be used in the living room, designed to look attractive and provide a quick way to access all sorts of digital media. You can hook one up to a surround sound system and your main TV, to enjoy Netflix or your own media files with software such as Plex.
The birth of the web. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
He thought it would be a whole lot simpler if the computers could swap their information directly, even though, at that time, computers didn't communicate with one another. March 2009 marks 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee first proposed a project that would become the World Wide Web.