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E-mail, E-search, E-shopping, Web Portals and e-trading are
commonly known changes evolved over time (referred to List
1)
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1993, Mosaic takes the Internet by storm; WWW proliferates
at a 341,634% annual growth rate of service traffic. Gopher's growth is
997%; White House comes on-line, www.whitehouse.gov
and president@whitehouse.gov
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1994, Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering on its Web page; First
Virtual, the first cyberbank, opens;
Shopping malls arrive on the Internet; First cyberstation, RT-FM,
broadcasts from Interop in Las Vegas; NSFNET traffic passes 10 trillion
bytes/month; WWW edges out telnet to become 2nd most popular service on
the Net (behind ftp-data) based on % of packets and bytes traffic
distribution on NSFNET; Arizona law firm of Canter & Siegel "spams"
the Internet with email advertising green card lottery services
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1994, ARPANET/Internet celebrates 25th
anniversary; The first banner ads appear on hotwired.com in October. They
were for Zima (a beverage)
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1995, WWW surpasses ftp-data in March as the service with
greatest traffic on NSFNet based on packet count, and in April based on
byte count; A number of Net related companies go public, with Netscape
leading the pack with the 3rd largest ever NASDAQ IPO share value;
RealAudio offers near-realtime audio on the Net
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1995, Domain name registration no longer free; NSF announced
access to NSFNET backbone via 4 access providers; $50 domain fee imposed
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1995, technology of the year: WWW and Search Engine
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1996, technology of the year: Search engines, JAVA and
Internet phone
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1996, Internet phones catch the attention of US
telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology
(which has been around for years); The controversial US Communications
Decency Act (CDA) becomes law in the US in order to prohibit distribution
of indecent materials over the Net. A few months later a three-judge panel
imposes an injunction against its enforcement. Supreme Court unanimously
rules most of it unconstitutional in 1997; The WWW browser war, fought
primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in
software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the
help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.
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1996, Restrictions on Internet use around the world:
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China: requires users and ISPs
to register with the police
Germany:
cuts off access to some newsgroups carried on CompuServe
Saudi
Arabia: confines Internet access to universities and hospitals
Singapore:
requires political and religious content providers to register with the
state
New
Zealand: classifies computer disks as "publications" that can be
censored and seized
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1997, Domain name
(business.com) sold for US$150,000
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1997, Technologies of the Year: Push, Multicasting
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1998, Web size estimates range between 275 (Digital) and 320
(NEC) million pages for 1Q; Internet users get to be judges in a
performance by 12 world champion ice skaters on 27 March, marking the
first time a television sport show's outcome is determined by its viewers
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1998, Electronic postal stamps become a reality, with the US
Postal Service allowing stamps to be purchased and downloaded for printing
from the Web; Compaq pays US$3.3million for altavista.com
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1998, Technologies of the Year: E-Commerce, E-Auctions,
Portals
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1999, Technologies of the Year: E-Trade, Online Banking, MP3
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2000, A massive denial of service attack is launched against
major web sites, including Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay in early February, Web
size estimates by NEC-RI and Inktomi surpass 1 billion indexable pages
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2000, Technologies of the Year: ASP, Napster
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2001, The first live distributed musical -- The Technophobe
& The Madman -- over Internet2 networks debuts on 20 Feb; VeriSign
extends its multilingual domain testbed to encompass various European
languages (26 Feb), and later the full Unicode character set (5 Apr)
opening up most of the world's languages; Forwarding email in Australia
becomes illegal with the passing of the Digital Agenda Act, as it is seen
as a technical infringement of personal copyright (4 Mar)
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2001, Radio stations broadcasting over the Web go silent
over royalty disputes (10 Apr); Napster keeps finding itself embroiled in
litigation and is eventually forced to suspend service; it comes back
later in the year as a subscription service; .biz and .info are added to
the root server on 27 June with registrations beginning in July; .biz
domain go live on 7 Nov.
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2002. US ISP Association
(USISPA) is created from the former
CIX (11 Jan)