Internet History : 90s : Web Boom

90s : Internet Boom

• 90 : End of ARPANET.

• 90 : Electronic Frontier Fondation

• 91 : Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Association

• 91 : Protocols WAIS and Gopher

• 91 : World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer

• 92 : Number of hosts breaks 1,000,000 - but just 50 Web servers

• 93 : Mosaic (NCSA) Started the real Web Boom

• 94 : 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

• January 94 : Start of the Web boom in France.

• February 95 : Official Launch of the MediaPort

French Web site map (UREC)	January 94	20
	July 94	100
	March 95	287
	September 95	598
	January 96	1325
	May 96	2587
	16th december 96	4987
	2nd october 97	end of the service