| INTERNET |
YEAR |
TRIDEL |
· The World Wide Web is born.
· "Gopher," the first point-and-click
way of navigating the files of the Internet, is released.
· Version 7 of the Macintosh operating system
is introduced |
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1991 |
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· Created a sophisticated
electronic Bulletin Billboard System (NIGHTLINE BBS)
that created a considerable following |
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· The phrase "surfing the Internet"
is coined.
· First audio and video multicasts.
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1992 |
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· White House and UN come online.
· Internet traffic grows 341,634%.
· Wax:Or the Discovery of Television Among
the Bees by David Blaire becomes the first movie broadcasted
over the Internet
· Microsoft unveils the NT (New Technology)
operating system
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1993 |
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· First banner ads appear on hotwire.com for
Zima and AT&T.
· You can now order pizza online.
· First cyberbank opens for business.
· Web grows to 10,000+ sites.
· James Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics Inc.,
creates Mosaic Communications Corporation (the forerunner
of Netscape Communications). Together with Marc Andreessen
and six other programmers, they developed Mosaic, one
of the earliest web browsers at the University of Illinois |
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1994 |
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· pioneered in the
local Internet field by becoming the country's fourth
Internet Service Provider through Tridel.Net |
· CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy begin to
provide dial-up Internet access.
· Domain name registration no longer free.
· Java, RealAudio launched.
· Vatican and Canadian government come online.
· Web grows to 23,500 sites.
· Netscape was publicly listed and it broke all
records for the most successful opening-day transaction
in history
· IBM bought Lotus Development Corporation after
a week of price negotiation. IBM had launched a hostile
takeover attempt on June 5, 1995, and the two companies
signed an agreement on June 11 to finalize the deal.
Lotus had achieved great success with its spreadsheet,
Lotus 1-2-3, and its enormously popular Lotus Notes
software, which let workers on different computers collaborate
on the same document. IBM's takeover of Lotus put IBM
head-to-head with Microsoft, which was about to launch
a collaboration and networking software product called
Microsoft Exchange |
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1995 |
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· beginning crew of
five people and a humble Pentium 60 setup with 16 Mb
of RAM and 10 dialup lines |
· Browser wars begin
with quarterly updates.
· Domain name tv.com sold to CNET for $15,000.
· Several countries pass Internet restrictions.
· Web grows to 462,000 sites. |
|
1996 |
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• formally registered
with the Securities and Exchange Commission·
Alchemy, Tridel's web development division, was created |
·Domain name business.com
sold for $150,000.
· Web grows to nearly 1.5 million sites.
· IBM's Deep Blue computer defeats Garry Kasparov
in the sixth and final match of their series. It was
the first time that a computer defeated a reigning human
chess grandmaster |
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1997 |
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· Activated full circuit
T1 via MCI |
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· U.S. Postal Service allows stamps to be purchased
and downloaded for printing on the Web.
· Compaq pays $3.3 million for AltaVista.com.
·Internet users judge an ice skating championship.
· Web grows to 3.36 million sites.
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1998 |
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· Free computers available with long-term contract
for Internet service.
· Online stock trading takes off,
· MP3 files get hot.
· Web grows to 8.1 million sites.
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1999 |
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· fully redundant and triangulated US Backbone
connections via multiple E1 links in the Philippines
providing fast and reliable Internet connection
· becomes a top 5000 corporation
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· Napster, truly viral
viruses and wireless devices hit the headlines.
· Seven new domain name suffixes approved.
· Web grows to 23 million sites, one billion
pages. |
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2000 |
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· 20,000-strong user-base |