La Canadian Conference for Computing and Data Processing, tenue en 1958, attire 400 participants et amène la formation, la même année, de la Computing and Data Processing Society of Canada (maintenant l'ACI, l'Association canadienne de l'informatique).
Connecting a computer to a network dramatically enhances the computer's usefulness by providing access to such communications-intensive services as electronic mail, remote data storage, distributed data processing, distributed multimedia databases such as the World-Wide Web, remote education and electronic commerce.Giga-fren Giga-fren