Around 1990, computers became more integrated into classroom lessons with the rise of multimedia devices like video discs, simulation tools, and CD-ROMs containing educational databases. By 1992, technologies like Gopher servers allowed educators to connect students to remote information over early internet precursors. As the actual Internet grew in the 1990s, educators embraced interactive ways to engage students using enhanced multimedia in software, DVD drives, and more sophisticated educational programs, though issues also arose like viruses, inappropriate content, and increased plagiarism opportunities that schools worked to address.