1962 - ARPANET Conception 1969 - Four universities create first network 1970 - E-mail is one of the first uses of the network 1971 - Network grows to 23 hosts (servers) 1972 - Internetworking Group founded 1973 - ARPANET goes international 1979 - Usenet begins 1981 - Network grows to 213 hosts (servers) 1982 - Development of TCP/IP begins 1988 - Network grows to 60000 hosts (servers), Internet Worm is first virus 1990 - ARPANET decommissioned, 300,000 hosts (servers) 1991 - NSF lifts ban on commercial traffic, Gopher programs appear, Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML - HyperText Markup Language 1993 - Mosaic browser first appears - Mark Andreesen and NCSA at University of Illinois 1996 - over 10,000,000 hosts (servers) Back
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