History (see also Browser History)


Discussion: The Internet started in 1969. The U.S. Department of Defence commissioned a network of four computers called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency network) to conduct research into networking. For most of its existence, the Internet was used primarily for research, academic and military activities.
: With the arrival of the World Wide Web in 1993 the world of commerce became interested in the Internet's potential.
: Today the Internet is made up of tens of millions of computers with over 300,000,000 users worldwide.

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1969	Arparnet started by the US Department of Defence
1973	UK connected
1989	The World Wide Web conceived by Tim Berners-Lee
1990	The first Web defined and implemented
1993	Marc Andreessen releases Mosaic, a graphical browser
1993	The World Wide Web takes off
1994	First business transaction on the Internet
1996	400,000 businesses on the Internet
1998	100 million users of the Internet
2000	350 million users