Internet History

• Early 1990’s: ARPAnet decomissioned

• 1991: NSF lifts restrictions on commercial use of NSFnet (decommissioned, 1995)

• early 1990s: WWW

  • hypertext [Bush 1945, Nelson 1960’s]
  • HTML, http: Berners-Lee
  • 1994: Mosaic, later Netscape
  • late 1990’s: commercialization of the WWW

Late 1990’s:

• est. 50 million computers on Internet

• est. 100 million+ users

• backbone links runnning at 1 Gbps

1990’s: commercialization, the WWW

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