In this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on August 11, 1999, reporter Brendan Keefe heralds the advent of the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. For the first time, American consumers could email and web browse via their mobile devices. A prototype for the World Wide Web launched in 1990. The National Science Foundation allowed full public Internet access in 1991. Within five years, 36 million people were using the Internet to go online. By 2000, that number increased by 1,000 percent.